You imagine what the room will be like, a day from today, when they enter, the first time. You check and double-check your plans, your resources, your papers, your ideas. What you'll say. You mull over everything that might go wrong. You plan for everything that might go right. You try to imagine the room, the day, the year ahead through their eyes. What they see. The First Day. It will never be perfect. You know that. It might be close enough. So you look again. #smallstories (teacher edition)