\u00a0God willing, tomorrow will bring two things:<\/p>\n\n\n
1) Caleb, home after a month of basic training<\/p>\n\n\n
and\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
2) The first day of a new school year for me.<\/p>\n\n\n
I was going to make a joke about feeling greatly conflicted about tomorrow, not knowing whether to be eager or depressed, but in actuality, both of these things are going to be good.<\/p>\n\n\n
Obviously I am excited to see Caleb but I am also (mostly) eager to get going again at school.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And although I felt a bit depleted by the end of last school year, this year will be different. For one thing, I get to see the kids’ faces. (No mask mandate at our school at present, knock on wood.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
For another, it will be good to start the year in August and set the tone of my classroom from the get go. I am convinced now that much of my difficulty last semester came from jumping into someone else’s class mid-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Furthermore, this year will feel different because I am experimenting in big ways with my entire approach to the classroom, based largely on the reading I have done over the past year. We shall see what works and what doesn’t. Either way, it will keep things interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
There’s much to look forward to, starting tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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