A New Year: Speak Life and Time for Reflection
Teachers, Romans, Countrymen... Wait wait, that's not right. Teachers, (Administrators), Parents, and Students, We are 8 days away from a new school year in many North Carolina districts. 8. Days. The next week will be spent in meetings about how to handle: old policies, new policies, money, student behaviors, cell phones, and really anything you can imagine. We will be attempting to drink from a fire hose of new information. As I think about my new journey at a different school, I start to think about what I would tell first-year teacher Faith. What would I tell her to do differently? The same? And so I came up with a list... 1) Do NOT be an island. I remember thinking that I needed to have original lessons with hooks every day. All of the notes needed to be written by me. All of the assignments, quizzes, and tests needed to be thoughtfully created by only me. "ExamView is for the weak!" I thought as I stayed up til 2 a.m. trying to edit math in Microsoft W...