New Job Update

So.... inservice started today. Well, the 4th - 8th we did curriculum training, then the 13th and 14th were for people new to the district, then the 15th (today) was an extra day just for my campus so we could have some other day off in February or something, so inservice REALLY starts on Monday. But inservice started today. Fortunately, I got to get to know some others in my department during our TAKS tutorials July 14th-something... and during our science week (the 4th-8th) and it already feels like family. In my previous teaching career, I always felt like an outcast - because there was just one of me - ONE person in my content area, and only three in my whole department-and they were band geeks... sorry guys. But now, there are 22 of us (including a helper teacher! Who woulda thunkit?) and it's like I have 10 brothers and sisters, and a quartet of crazy aunts and uncles. It's pretty hilarious, actually. And some of them are actually more nerdy than me. (hah!)

Anyway, the whole point of this update is to say that despite a LARGE number of lesson plans yet to be written, posters to be laminated, and dead things to be ordered, things are going quite well. I'm enjoying myself immensely, and I actually can't wait for school to start. :)