{"id":24,"date":"2009-09-16T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-09-16T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:47:11","slug":"tomorrow-is-a-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is a big day."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Buddha\"<\/p>\n

We started back to school in mid August. We have stormed and normed and are off to a great start. The loss of my other blog has me feeling disconnected but hopeful that the reinvention will take root and I will ride the transition out seemlessly.\u00a0 There is a lot of Spam here (on wordpress), I didn’t have that before.\u00a0 I also don’t have the gritty, grass roots feel of my first words on line.\u00a0 This is different.<\/p>\n

Today, I want to talk about hope, trust, and possibility.\u00a0 I have to give a speech tomorrow.\u00a0 It is really a mock speech, I am in the running for my county’s Teacher of the Year honor.\u00a0 It is not something that I take lightly.\u00a0 I have only taught here for a little over two years. This is a county with deep roots.\u00a0 Lots of “who you knows” and “the way it has always been done’s.”\u00a0 My experience has not been about that.\u00a0 My school is all about possibilities – for everyone.\u00a0 It is a place of new horizons and second chances.\u00a0 I love being there and teaching there every day.<\/p>\n

I don’t love giving speeches.\u00a0 (I love talking to students, any shape, age or size.) I hope that it is ‘ok’ to say that.\u00a0 Speeches are necessary sometimes.\u00a0 You know, I have been honored with this Teacher of the Year finalist position because of my teaching.\u00a0 I can talk to adults, share my expertise, but the speech idea for a mock audience….\u00a0 It is creating unrest in my home.<\/p>\n

For the love of what I do, the confidence of my peers, and the trust placed in me, I am going to forge ahead and get it done.\u00a0 It has been in process for a week! I have spent countless hours prepping this.\u00a0 The problem is, I do better when I speak to real people from my heart.<\/p>\n

I guess I better get over it.<\/p>\n

Thanks to my critical friends and virtual PLN for your support. I go live tomorrow and the ‘winner’ will be announced on the 21st.\u00a0 As far as I am concerned we are all winners, we teach kids.\u00a0 We touch the future.\u00a0 I am honored to be here, but I am more honored to call myself teacher, accolades or not.\u00a0 You should be too.\u00a0 I am the same person tonight as I will be next week after they announce their selection.\u00a0 I teach again tomorrow. Real students, real outcomes.<\/p>\n

I have to stop procrastinating and get back to it.\u00a0 Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We started back to school in mid August. We have stormed and normed and are off to a great start. The loss of my other blog has me feeling disconnected but hopeful that the reinvention will take root and I will ride the transition out seemlessly.\u00a0 There is a lot of Spam here (on wordpress), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteachingjourney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}