HomeFireBlue
April 28, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Best of luck! Share the pics with us!
-Blue
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Wayfarer
April 24, 2006 at 10:21 pm
It was really great to see you do your thing!
It is true that I was not surprised to see that mainstream public education is as it was some 4 years ago, it was refreshing to see two important things:
First, students in high schools everywhere, public, private, traditional or alternative, are the same degree of strange. Different flavors, perhaps, but just as likely to make one of my eyebrows raise.
Second, there is an infinite variety of ways in which great learning takes place, and all these weird teenagers we see everyday–every single one of them–are capable of amazing things. The good teachers, including Mrs. Chili, bring that out, and do so beautifully.
There are a lot of differences between my world and yours, Mrs. Chili, but there are a lot of similarities, too. I hope we get to keep talking about that when you come to see my place for yourself.
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vanx
April 15, 2006 at 10:21 am
Life is great when it reads like a first novel! I knew there would be a ray of sunshine when I saw that punk Calvin sitting behind a box.
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Mrs.Chili
April 11, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Thank you. I was fishing for encouragement, and I’m so glad you are all willing to take my pathetic bait!
Actually, Claudia, I’m in the process of putting the resume-cover-letter-recommendation packet together again for submission to a couple of other schools, including the high school in my own town. A big part of me is about THIS job, though, and I recognize that much of that is due to the familiarity I feel for the place and the knowledge that I’ll be well mentored there – I’ve got at least four or five different teachers whom I’m certain I can go to with questions or requests for help or feedback. I just don’t know if other school communities would be that open to the new kid on the block.
CT spoke with one of the panelists today and came back with the information that, of the in-house candidates, mine was the strongest interview. I’m still holding out hope, but it’s certainly tempered with a fair bit of “don’t let that hope get too high.” It’s a coping mechanism, I know, that will help me deal if I’m turned down.
Of course, I’ll keep you all posted. When I hear anything, you’ll all be in the loop.
And thanks again. I love that you’re all out there, checking in on me.
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