My name is James, and I graduated from Dillard University in 2001 with a major in Mass Communications and an English minor. After two concurrent careers in journalism in which I was required to speak with and sometimes train others, as a sportswriter and a television technical director, I was bitten by the teaching bug. I began my new career teaching middle school English/Language Arts in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana in 2004. My experiences include both full-time and substitute stints...