A stack of books I'd have in my classroom library if I were still teaching, accompanied by a sweet note from a former student. To my teaching career (and the nearly 1,000 students and athletes I taught and coached): It's been eight months since I left the classroom after five-and-a-half years of teaching high school English (with a quick stint as a World Geography teacher), and I left rather unceremoniously. I left quietly, almost as though I was nervous for people to know. I