6 week grades are due in 24 hours, and I'm feeling pretty good. I feel so much more prepared than I did my first year. If it's your first year teaching, it really does get better!! I feel like I've paid my dues. I've survived one year. I deserve to be a teacher, and I deserve to have the respect of my students. I am an expert, and I do have the tools and the motivation to be a great teacher. This year has truly been a blessing. I have an amazing team of teachers to work with. I'm not just saying that. I meet almost every weekend with 1 or 2 other Geometry teachers and we plan together. We bounce ideas of each other and create better lessons because of it. This weekend 2 of us put in a lot of work creating one component that we needed. Later in the weekend 2 other teachers worked together to create another component that we needed. This year I feel like we're not all doing the same work separately. We're working together to lighten the load while still coll