Chalkdust

After leaving the structured, orderly confines of his comfortable college experience, Curby Alexander traveled halfway across the country armed with nothing more than a diploma to begin his career as a teacher. From the moment he crossed the threshold into his empty classroom, through the process of learning to cope with endless feelings of isolation and incompetence, toward small victories of hope and laughter along the way that somehow kept him going, Curby invites you into the world of a first-year teacher through perceptive, heartfelt storytelling. These experiences were more than events; they became the connective tissue that gave his career form and meaning, and his memories are like chalkdust at the end of a long day of teaching, subtle reminders of purposeful hard work, the value of lifelong learning, and the power of human connection.