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If you spend enough time on Twitter or Facebook, you will eventually come across posts that compare teaching to something beautiful and wonderful. Because we all know that teaching is like flowers and rainbows and puppy dogs. All. The. Time. Until it isn't. Sometimes teaching is hard. Sometimes a student gives you a particularly difficult time. Just like rainbows do. Sometimes teaching makes you not want to teach anymore. What then? What do we tell ourselves in the times when teaching isn't like flowers or rainbows or puppy dogs? I am growing increasingly annoyed with sentiments drawing analogies between teaching and something inferior to teaching; the "kitsch" of teaching analogies. Seriously. Google the phrase, "teaching is like" and click on the images. You will get a healthy dose of images with inspirational quotes on them that compare teaching to whatever. Granted, others will attempt to accurately portray teaching in chaotic terms. Often humo

The high school I teach at went 1:1 a number of years ago by purchasing enough chromebooks for every student, and a few extra, just in case. In addition to the chromebook adoption was the implementation of Google Apps for Education, which is now referred to as GSuite for Education. GSuite was relatively new for everyone because students and staff had previously been using Microsoft Office for pretty much everything. I jumped right in. After a couple of years of being the go-to person for GSuite training in the building I decided to pursue Level 1 Google For Education Certified Teacher status by going through the online training and taking the required exam. I was well versed in most of the GSuite apps so neither the training nor the exam was all that difficult. About a year later I decided to also pursue the Level 2 certification. That did not present any problems. After receiving my Level 2 certification I began looking into the requirements for becoming a certified trainer. Th