Check It Out

The first of August always seems like New Year’s Day. A new school year beginning.  It has to be August because I have sat in school meetings when September first rolls around.

I love the beginning of a new year.  I went by school yesterday to check on the fish tanks. There was a disaster waiting to happen; one tank needed a severe water change.  So the five minute stop in turned into forty-five minutes. 

Usually there is a flurry of activity but not yesterday.  It seems that work has come to a dead halt for whatever reason.  This in a summer when we are getting new carpet, new vinyl and new bathrooms.  So what has ben done? Part so fo the vinyl and the carpet are torn up, toliets are removed (I know, had to use one) but it makes me wonder how anyone will be able to work in their room before the end of August.

You see, we are expected to return to school the end of August.  We all want our rooms and spaces to look nice when the kids arrive.  Not much time for that the last week in August. Those days are for meetings.  So it will be nteresting to see when the flooring and bathroom projects will be done.

But back to school is not only about physical space. It is about a new year, new ideas, and goals.  I have instructed my good friends to get a sheperds’s hook and pull me aside the year I return to school without new ideas and goals for the year. 

So this year, I am going to take the National Board Certification for Library Media Specialists.  I decided to so this summer.  A friend in Idaho planted a seed (probably unknowingly) followed by a conversation with another library media specialist who is on board to take it.  This is my thirty-fourth year of teaching. I am watching friends and colleagues retire. I need a challenge because retirement is a ways away for me.  Nobody has to get out the sheperd’s hook yet.

Happy Reading.

MsMac