It was supposed to be their Field Day today (or more like Field Hour), but it rained last night so the school cancelled Field Day. However, since it was bright and sunny by the time they got out of Special Areas, they still got to spend the rest of the morning outside.
They were pretty excited to see me. I had forgotten they were even getting yearbooks.
- Graduated from Grad School
- Got a new job
- Met the teachers I’m working with in the Fall
- Started buying a house
I feel so grown-up.
Took me 5 minutes to figure out that this was not some BBC/BBC News crossover.
Ran into a girl from my MAT program at the farmers’ market. She congratulated me on the new job (she had heard from someone else). Then, she told me how she did her clearance interview weeks ago and hasn’t heard anything… She’ll be fine though.
Last Friday was graduation. Yay! Graduated! M.A.T. for the win!
Wednesday went something like this:
10:30-10:50: Clearance interview with one of the local school districts
11:00: A principal calls from an Arts-Infused Elementary to set up an interview at 1:15.
11:03: Second principal calls while I’m on the phone with the first to set up an interview right then.
11:40: Get to the school of the second principal. The school is amazing. I have an interview with the Principal, AP, and Lead Teacher. The lead teacher shows me around. (I should add this school just won a major award for being awesome, has a juggling team and an all girls robotics team with the coolest name ever)
1:00: Get to the Arts-Infused school. It is also awesome looking inside. They totally dig my theater/music/art background. The 5th grade lead teacher shows me around.
2:15: I get home only to discover an email from a 3rd school (one that I had been told wanted to talk to me already) asking me to come in Thursday morning for an interview.
6:00: Go out to dinner with my wife and our friend.
7:00: Get a phone call from the Director of Personnel saying that I’ve been recommended for a 4th grade position at the school I visited first.
THURSDAY-
9:00: Go to my interview at the 3rd school. Their IT Coordinator also works at the school that offered me a job. She says I should leap at the opportunity and tells me how awesome that school is while giving me a tour of this school.
10:00: Go to the district office. Sign my Acceptance Letter.
11:00: Get home to discover an email from a 4th school that wanted me to come in for an interview. Write a very nice email back thanking them for the offer, but I have already accepted a position.
I feel like quite the boss. From Clearance Interview to Done in less than 24 hours. Zero resumes sent out. Amazing job for the Fall. Amazing
This is my bestfriend Hoffmann. When I got my iPad, I didn’t realize it would let me vandalize his Facebook photos. This is why technology is dangerous…
In all fairness, I had what you would traditionally consider an interview with the school counselor who thought I was amazing because the principal was in a meeting. Then the principal talked to me for about 10 minutes about how this was really an informal interview (EVEN THOUGH I WORE A FULL SUIT!) because they couldn’t even really post the job yet, but they would probably call me in for a formal interview once the job can be posted online. She did keep saying “You would probably like it here” and “I want to hire people before we have our training to transition to a partial magnet on these days”. So that gives me some hope… Yay first interview down!
One of my students wrote me a poem for my last day. I’m trying really hard not to correct it and hand it back. The thought was nice though.
