April Coker, Author

Category: teaching

  • “Someone Like You”

    We all need something good in our lives, something that lifts us up, makes us forget the bad, reinforces the fact that there are good people all around us, and reminds us that God Himself is good. (according to Psalm 100:5 and Psalm 107:1 and others) I experienced that this week when I went to…

  • Fifth Grade Follies

    It was in the fifth grade that I began writing stories. I don’t recall exactly what I wrote but I shared my work with friends, and at one time, my teacher. Any feedback they might have given me is not in my memory banks, so maybe it wasn’t that good? I don’t know. I do…

  • Another 4th Grade Thing

    I thought I had pretty much exhausted my memories of fourth grade but something came to mind the other day that I feel should be documented for my kids and grandkids if they care to read about it some day. It happened one day in my fourth grade P.E. class in the multipurpose room at…

  • My Connection to Patrick Mahomes

    I’m sure almost everyone who has been following the Kansas City Chiefs football team would like to say they have a connection to Patrick Mahomes, NFL’s best quarterback ever, according to some.  I really do, though.  I taught in the same schools his father Pat attended.  After my son was born in 1984 I did…

  • How to Succeed as a New Teacher

    I was a new teacher once.  Fresh out of college, heart and mind full of dreams and good intentions, unjaded by the educational system, confident in my leaders, bright-eyed, and bushy-tailed. Then reality hit.  And boy, did it hit.  These were the days before TTAS, STAAR, and EXCETs.  I managed to survive my first few…