Headache Freedom

Reflecting on the last 90 days of teaching, I noticed that I simply had a headache everyday.  Not until I was thinking about how often I was complaining of it or how often I was taking something did I realize how frequent they were. The true reality hit when I realized that I haven’t had one since my last day before Christmas vacation…hmmm..

The headaches apparantly are a direct result of the level of stress I endure at school.  That is probably not a good thing on so many levels, but I am happy to to be headache free for a while.

Officially, we have 90 days of school remaining.  That may seem like a small number, but in it we have AIMS testing, the long length of Spring (don’t you remember how long March and April are?) and of course the stress of making sure we meet all of our goals in order to receive all the bonus money we deserve.

I hope that in these next 90 days I strike a chord with just a handful of my students…that the lights come on for someone who has been in the dark the last couple years…that something happens in one of my students to cause them to love learning…that I will be remembered by a handful.

Yes, I am stressed at school and yes, I love my kids.  They are precious and tiring and drive me crazy, but I can’t wait to see where they will go.  A few of them will stray, but I pray for those. And a few will walk that straight A-B path by no result of my work of course.  And a very few, maybe 1-2 I am thinking of specifically, will hopefully be the ones that prove everyone wrong and become something so great!

~ by airynn on December 26, 2008.