“Ms. T and Tina are two different people.”
“I had a very rough weekend and when I came to school (…) my whole morning was thrown off. My math lesson was awful. Then they had specials. By the time they came back, I was back to Ms. T. It's a mental switch. My partner and my friends, they'll like be like, ‘Ms. T is coming out when when you accidentally use your teacher voice on your friends and family. You know Ms. T is there?’”
“They're both me. Ms. T is me. I'm still going to be doing what I like to do in the classroom. I'm still going to be dancing and singing, and doing all those things that I like to do. I it is a compartmentalization (…) I might do work at home, and I'm grading on the weekends like everybody else is, but there is that shift of Ms. T versus Tina, which I think for me personally is really important. So during the summertime, I don't open my email. I don't keep my email on my phone. I don't open my email on the weekends. There has never been anything that cannot wait until 7:15 on Monday morning.”
“I think there's a conscious switch in my brain.”