Everyone is posting about how 2016 was not so great in politics or deaths but what about our daily lives?
In January I personally began the year with a new teaching position. I had high hopes to do well, be accepted, appreciated for my trade and experience, and enjoy my surroundings. I left a family that was slowly disseminating and I refused to stay and be a prat of the destruction. In the teaching world much like any corporation, you have leaders and sub-leaders and you collaborate and create ideas then act upon them. I wanted that and I sought it out 35 miles south.
And I flourished, I enjoyed every day teaching and getting to know new colleagues. Aside from one minor colleague/friendship gone awry; okay it was nearing a fatal attraction! I survived and learned and moved on with a good taste in my mind and mouth.
But then I got a bug up my ass! Thinking can be dangerous, hahaha.
I'm going to be 60 years young this coming new year and my experience is important enough to share with new minds. Plus it allows me to change course and slow down a bit... Hard to do.
I worked hard to get this interview, I was ready to take the teaching world on with my experience, my personality, my game was on. Their leadership was not so on top of things, but I assessed that was due to the summer break.......think again.
It did not completely turn out that way though. Oh, I'm still there, working at my best, giving of my experience in teaching, I know what I'm doing, and how to do it. Just talk to me, relate to me, respect me......
Sadly, we are coming into an era, or maybe it's me leaving an era, either way I see some horrible behaviors in the professional environment taking place. I refuse to gossip, instead I want to collaborate. I refuse to climb an invisible ladder, instead let's respect one another's ideas and place them on the table not act as if they never happened.
In summary, I don't care who thought of the great idea, let's just do it. We are the 5th largest school district and we are failing....now as I'm in a TOSA position, I see what I assumed is sadly, true.
I may have written about this illness before, it's called lacking communication. Can we find the cure, it's out there, we just need to administer it.
