The quest to maintain our teacher certification is endless. We graduate with our Bachelor’s, take exactly 3 deep, freeing breaths…and start on our Master’s Degree. Or our National Boards. Or an additional certification area.

And, aside from the money that I’m continually shelling out for these classes, qualification tests, and reprints of my certificate that don’t equate to commensurate pay raises, I’m ok with that. I’m a lover of learning, as they say.

I don’t mind reading the research (once I can actually find it). I don’t even mind writing the papers (if I can ever find a day I’m not writing lesson plans). But OH MY GOSH. Citing the $!#@ sources takes me just as long as writing the whole thing. A comma here, two spaces and then a period there…and do you use the whole author’s name or just the initials?

And doing it wrong knocks off ten points. Because you wrote the long date instead of the short.

Oh…No more.

You guys, I think Google is on our side. It’s like they hired teachers and asked, “What can we do to make your life easier?” And then they did it.

Check it out.