Mayday! Mayday!

(Practical help for the last weeks of school)

By Jody Barker, Ed.D

University of Colorado Denver

School of Education and Human Development

I am not typically a cynic or a pessimist, and so warnings of impending doom and despair are not my forte. But if we can predict something, we can prevent it. I have a deep, guttural instinct that even with all that we have been through in the last two school years, this could be the worst May ever! If you are or have ever been a teacher, you know what I mean about May. It is the time when spring…