Currently I’m feeling like my life is in a state of transition. Part of me wants to continue doing my role as the Dean of Students and Technology Integration Specialist (TIS); part of me wants to move back into the classroom to teach English and be a half time TIS; part of me wants to play Wii and check Facebook all day; part of me wants to start a PhD. program that is being offered on the campus of SFS. Obviously change is in the air! I know, after 13 years in education, that some of it is the fall blues — that after-the-fast-paced-start-of-the-year let down. It always occurs every year; it is cyclical like the seasons. Teachers are more prone to feel it because of the natural biorhythms of our work, but knowing doesn’t really stop the feeling or help one cope with the effects.
What is needed? Change? Movement? I’m hoping that the up coming publishing of the Middle Matters, our quarterly MS publication, will help this situation, but I sincerely doubt it will. The fact is — I miss the classroom. Administration is a very lonely job; especially, when you are the discipline guy of the middle school.
