Reflecting and Whathaveyou.

I have finished my first year at a new school in a new district. It has been the best teaching experience of my short career. I developed professional and personal relationships that will inspire and push me forward as a teacher and a person. I am excited about public education and my place in it for the first time in a while and I can see a long term future in education, not the case a year ago. This will be the first summer that I will not run from school and stay away mentally and physically as long as I can. I will work with the other U.S. History teacher closely to develop themes, assessments and get to know the new text that we decided, together, to adopt. I may teach summer school. Really teach it too, not monitor some computer program that serves only to occupy time and teaches nothing. In short I feel like a professional…and it feels good.