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Teaching is a profession of passion and disillusionment. People go into the profession expecting to shape young minds and educate the future leaders of our society. Many young teachers become frustrated with their chosen profession and leave it to find other careers. The ones that stay struggle with similar issues and have both good days and bad days. Teaching in Circles is a series of stories about a teacher and his thoughts on his profession, stories of the things he struggles with daily, and his eventual decision to remain a teacher.

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Simply put, I can't quite figure out how I feel about teaching. For the nine years I have taught high school English, I have felt as though I either have one of the best or one of the worst possible jobs ever. I've felt like a professional with great integrity and a minion whose sole purpose in life is to be abused by others. It's rare for someone to hate or love absolutely every aspect of his or her profession, yet something about my slippery relationship with my life as a teacher pesters me, pleads with me to be understood--or at least explored.

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Nathan R. Miller is a writer and teacher of high school English and theatre in the southern Twin Cities area, where he lives with his wife and two young children. His current work focuses on nonfiction, including the narrative Teaching in Circles, which explores his ambivalent relationship with teaching high school students. Other recent work includes serving on the editorial board of Water~Stone Review, where he published an interview with Newbery-Award winning author Kate DiCamillo. An MFA graduate of Hamline University, Nathan now spends much of his time fixing leaky sinks around the house and trying to catch up on the movies he wanted to see five years ago.

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