What they never tell you about teaching is that when you’re a teacher, you’re also a college student and a high school student and a middle school kid and a grade school baby and somebody’s daughter before all of that. And, when you wake up in the morning you expect to feel like a teacher, but you don’t. It feels like every other day. And you don’t feel different at all, just layers of paint, color after color, on the same old piece of furniture.
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Kathleen Hicks received a B.A. from California Lutheran University and a M.Ed. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She facilitates a writing pedagogy course at a local university and is a fellow through U.C.L.A.’s Writing Project while continuing to doggy paddle through her third year of teaching remedial language arts, English 10, advanced placement language and composition, and acting as department chair in South Los Angeles at Ánimo Locke 1, a school specializing in supporting English language learners.
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