These words ring true!

My quote for my blog at the top is "The art of reinvention...life is a word in progress" is truer now more than ever.  It's basically the story of my life.  I've reinvented myself so many times, be it in my personal or professional life, that I seem to always be reinventing myself in a new role.

The last time I wrote in my blog I was a 4th grade teacher, teaching elementary level for the second year after having taught middle school language arts for 6 years.  Well, I'm working on reinventing myself once again, as a high school social studies teacher.

This choice was made for a couple of reasons:  job security and location.  For the past 2 years I've been traveling for 20-30 minutes to get to work in the morning.  Now, I'll be almost 5 minutes away from home.  Also, I worked in a district with several satellite elementary schools that have been considered for the chopping block for a few years now, but had been kept open each time.  Well, it's a matter of time before these schools close, especially the one I was in last.  'Last one hired, the first one fired,' as they say.

Well, with my change in schools comes a change in many things.  I'm now teaching high school students, grades 9-12, and social studies.  Although I did teach social studies for the past 2 years, teaching US and world history and geography, as well as students and law and the history of film and media, has created quite a learning curve for me.  

I'm up to the challenge, but that doesn't mean I don't have any questions or concerns.  This is where this blog will come in.  It's part brainstorming and reflection.  A place to share some of my ideas, and reflect on how they worked in class.  A place to celebrate my successes and rethink my failures.



I'm hoping that through this blog I can fine tune some of my lessons through reflection (getting some PD in, too), and probably get some helpful feedback.