31 Cindi Rigsbee 2007 <p>North Carolina Teacher of the Year Cindi Rigsbee keeps a blog of her experience as an ELA teacher in a rural middle school. Read about her experiences navigating the choppy seas of standardized testing, unpredictable adolescents and their seemingly-innocent dances. Rigsbee offers a good mix of daily--and highly comic--classroom life and reflection on the broader context of the teaching profession. &quot;Every student is someone's dream come true,&quot; she says in her first-day-of-school speech. Hence her nickname, &quot;the dream teacher.&quot;</p> <p>Rigsbee, C. (2007). <i>The dream teacher [blog]. </i>thedreamteacher.blogspot.com. Retrieved 6 June 2008.</p> http://thedreamteacher.blogspot.com/