Last I posted here, I was excited about branching out into a new part of public education. I was seeking out a teaching assignment that would allow me to start teaching either Language Arts or Social Studies. I was hopeful that I would be able to stay at the campus where I spent my my entire teaching career, and I wasn't really looking all that hard at teaching assignments that would have me change campuses.
At the start of last spring semester, I decided to start graduate school because I have a low tolerance for boredom. In the middle of the spring semester, Miss GG and I married because she has a high tolerance for talkative teachers who forget to mention that they have registered for graduate school (but that is another blog post entirely). By the end of the school year, it was obvious that if I wanted to move away from teaching Special Education, I would need to change campuses. So I chose to stay put. Still, in the middle of the summer I did interview for a new job, on my campus and in Special Education.
The new job would have taken me out of the classroom and shoved me into a 8x8 windowless office. Though I was excited to move to a new role, after completing the interview process, someone else was offered the job (and the luxury office). So I returned to the familiar, teaching Autistic students and students who struggle with communication and behavior, making it difficult to succeed in a classroom without some support.
This has been the start of a great year! My class is busting at the seams. I have a millionty-seven kids on my roll sheet. And I am glad that I returned to my same old, never-the-same classroom.
I have continued on with graduate school and will be a certified School Administrator/Principal in a few more months. Unlike the last time I went to a college class, I seem to be staying on schedule with my classes and I now have a GPA that I didn't know was a mathematical possibility in 1996. 4 more classes and I'll be done with school for ev er. Again. Until next time.
