Sunday, February 18, 2018
A New Lunar Year
Happy Lunar New Year (a few days late)!
So far 2018 has been rather busy as I hurry to submit all of the paperwork for summer and long-term professional educational opportunities becomes due. For some reason, as I muddle through an unpleasant testing window and all the applications, I seem to get more and more ideas about how I can try to affect serious academic gaps that I see around me. I hope to get some colleagues on board with a couple of new projects which will strengthen more than only my students, but as many as all of us together may work with.
I think that my volley of summer applications has gotten too many brain cells working that may not always be firing at such rapid speeds. My upcoming Saturday with my colleagues from a summer instructional leadership institute with NCAE is certain to get even more ideas flowing freely. I am looking forward to collaborating with this lovely group of educators again, and talking with them about all of our upcoming projects. Of the seventy or so opportunities that managed to come to my attention, I have applied to about ten of them, and have shared all of them with as many people as I could. I am sure that I must seem like a crazy person to be looking at a summer that will be busier than my normal school year, but I firmly believe that I should continue to learn so that I can be the resource that my students need every day.
Lunar New Year is known as a good time to begin new projects in earnest, so I am taking that to heart this year. I was unable to follow the tradition to greet the sun as it broke the horizon on lunar new year this time, but I will certainly not miss it again next year! This year will be life-changing for all of us, and I plan to be in my happy place by the year's end. I hope that each of us will all be in our respective most happy places.
So far 2018 has been rather busy as I hurry to submit all of the paperwork for summer and long-term professional educational opportunities becomes due. For some reason, as I muddle through an unpleasant testing window and all the applications, I seem to get more and more ideas about how I can try to affect serious academic gaps that I see around me. I hope to get some colleagues on board with a couple of new projects which will strengthen more than only my students, but as many as all of us together may work with.
I think that my volley of summer applications has gotten too many brain cells working that may not always be firing at such rapid speeds. My upcoming Saturday with my colleagues from a summer instructional leadership institute with NCAE is certain to get even more ideas flowing freely. I am looking forward to collaborating with this lovely group of educators again, and talking with them about all of our upcoming projects. Of the seventy or so opportunities that managed to come to my attention, I have applied to about ten of them, and have shared all of them with as many people as I could. I am sure that I must seem like a crazy person to be looking at a summer that will be busier than my normal school year, but I firmly believe that I should continue to learn so that I can be the resource that my students need every day.
Lunar New Year is known as a good time to begin new projects in earnest, so I am taking that to heart this year. I was unable to follow the tradition to greet the sun as it broke the horizon on lunar new year this time, but I will certainly not miss it again next year! This year will be life-changing for all of us, and I plan to be in my happy place by the year's end. I hope that each of us will all be in our respective most happy places.
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