Tired but happy

I've been working really long days...and I've been trying to catch up on sleep this week and this past weekend.

Despite allllllll the work, I am SO happy. The staff here is amazing. I miss my students and families from last year, don't get me wrong, but I can't explain the difference in environment for me. I feel supported by everyone, valued by everyone, and at the same time, what I think is most important to me...I know that my students come first. The staff here is phenomenal, because we put our students first. We work together to make sure ALL our students are meeting the goals we have for them, and so while we each work very hard in our own classes, we are collectively striving for team-wide and school-wide growth, not just individual classroom growth. It's just a whole other world here. I'm growing as a teacher, a learner, and a leader.

...which means I need to get to bed since that's a whole lot of growing, and I need to be rested for it all!

Lots of love,
a


Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt 

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama 

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Edgar Winter 

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale 

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington 

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou 

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers 

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Stevie Wonder