A New Year. . .

The week of in-service has passed, the floors are polished, the rooms are ready and waiting.  The year holds so many possibilities and so many fears.  Excitement and anticipation mixed with equal amounts of trepidation and dread hangs in the air.  Some students (and teachers) can not wait to get back to it; for some it is the end of their favorite part of the year.

For me, its a preparation time for the coming flurry of activity.  I can only prepare so much for what is about to be and I have tried to anticipate and plan.  I will be teaching four different (very different) classes this year - Digital Interactive Media, Web Technologies,  Principles of Technology and Concepts of Engineering and Technology.  I am in varying states of readiness for these classes.  I created and worked diligently last year (and some this summer) to get all of my presentation and classroom materials ready for Principles of Technology.  I have my completed lesson plans from last year for DIM and Web Tech to revise and improve this year and I have all kinds of great plans for Concepts of Engineering.

Personally, I will also be taking six more hours towards my Masters, both Library Science courses - something to do in my spare time.  My son will be a freshman this year and will be so busy I don't know when I will see him except when I am carting him to and from practices and watching him perform.  He is both in the varsity band (Friday night football games) and the JV mascot (Thursday night games).  I wonder when he will sleep.  I have become the Beta Club sponsor and that comes with a ton of expectations for the fall semester.  I am fortunate to have a great group of officers already picked out for me and I will rely heavily on them to get all of the work done between now and convention in January.  We are also planning a big family vacation to Disney at Christmas time and my daughter's twelfth birthday.  Hopefully, things will be more easy going during the spring semester.

Overall, it is going to be a fabulous year.  I know my counselor and PEIMS person has busted tail all summer to get our schedules done and kids assigned.  I am looking forward to meeting my classes on Monday morning and then getting right to work.  My favorite part of this job is that things are never the same; I get to meet lots of different kids and be a part of their lives.

The doors are about to open on endless possibilities.  I can and I will. . . .