Tumultuous as my life has been in the last few months, I am excited to say that I will be at the forefront of a new and exciting opportunity in my school district. My small-town school is going to be the host of a new project based learning magnet school. Next year will be our pilot year, hosting two 3rd/4th/5th blend classes. Yes, you read that correctly, I will be having a mixed-age class next year from 8- to 11-year-olds! This is a scary, yet utterly thrilling prospect. I will have the chance to work with my students for three years! As I have already been teaching in a 4th/5th blend for three years (and LOVE it), including third is a welcome addition to my already differentiated class.
My Affliction
My blog has been relatively untouched in the last few months because the last six months have been an excruciating journey on the road to discovering what ails me. In the beginning of January I woke up with sore wrists... a couple weeks later my shoulders were hurting, too... fast forward a month and every joint in my body was aching... in another month the pain was unbearable. Teaching in a time in my life when putting socks on put me in agonizing pain is the single most difficult thing I've done in my life (not to mention simultaneously caring for my beautiful one-year-old son). Keeping up a happy appearance, maintaining my patience, and managing my work and day-to-day responsibilities was almost more than I could handle. I came home at the end of the day and could barely pry myself off the couch. It took nearly a month of tests and labs and medications to finally uncover the culprit. In this time I frequently wondered what I would do if I couldn't teach--a tormenting thought. Finally, I was told I have Lupus. Earth-shaking as it was to be diagnosed with a life-changing auto-immune disease, at least I finally knew. After the diagnosis it took almost another month for the medication to start working. Here I am, at the end of the school year finally feeling like a functioning human again.
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