Blogging Burn out?

So, Confession time. I spend a lot of time on Pinterest.  A lot of time. This is mostly because I am home on maternity leave and Pinterest is both mindless and inspiring at the same time. I can find some new recipes, plan my dream wardrobe and troll for new ideas for my classroom. Since teaching math is something that has become my new passion, I spend a lot of time looking for new ideas to incorporate into my program.  And as I am scrolling through Pinterest, I come across a lot of teaching  blogs. However, many of the sites I find myself on seem to have only one or two posts, or nothing for quite sometime---particularly math teaching blogs. (This may be because I spend a lot of time focusing on just math blogs).  I wonder what is about the combination of teaching and blogging that so many of us start with this desire to reach out and share our ideas on the interwebs and then....it just..falls away like so many other things.  This happened to me. When I first wanted to start a blog, I wrote all the time. I was constantly thinking about new things I wanted to share, different ideas that I had. And then...well....report cards took over. And I got pregnant. And now I have a baby. I still have the desire to share my ideas. But I find it hard to sit down and write, even when I really want to. I firmly believe though, that as an experienced teacher, part of my role in the education world is to share my experiences, my learning  with the rest of the education community. Blogging is one way to do it. There are lots of other ways. But it's part of the calling as a teacher.

We teach our students. We share our ideas. We are learners together. We are only leaders if we learn.