a good start

Monday was our only staff planning day for this summer, but I'm back and ready to tackle this beast called school. This week, I churned out a final copy of our first ever student handbook. Next is the forestry project for 170 students that will start our school year. School-wide "stuff" is my higher priority, but I also want to revamp the way I taught Physical Science and Biology.

The summer is not over, even as I take on these school-related projects. It is my nature to be glad for something to do that is larger than myself. I don't like the weeks during the school year where I'm barely staying on top of the planning and grading and I lose my afternoons, evenings, and weekends to them. I feel then trapped in rat wheel. But I like it right now where I set my own hours, work part of the day, play the rest, but I do work. I've been writing down a lot of ideas in my notebook and then hash out how to implement them. I've realized that I can't wait for this school to tighten ship, I've got to start moving things in that direction. And I can! That's the inspiring part about where I work. This coming year will be much better.

Of the three days I've gone in to school this week, I've biked all three of those days. It feels great. I think I will keep a tally this year to motivate me to continue biking. I'll report on it at the end of the year.