Woah... a post?

I was just reading over this blog that I haven't used in over a year. Wow things have changed.

So here is an update:

I am still at the same school that I started in and I am now quite happy overall.

The Reduction In Force hit our school very hard, I picked up a lot of new students and had gigantic classes (around 28-35 students)

I taught AP Government for the first time and ONE STUDENT PASSED THE OFFICIAL AP EXAM (which is the first time in our school's recent history - past 10 years at least) and 4 earned 2s which isn't bad considering the obstacles that we had and probably also a record.

I am teaching a full year AP Government next year, I am getting supported by some of my administration and left alone by the rest.

Debate team was a moderate success. While we did not win any competitions (whoops!) we attended 4, which is the first time we have done that.

One of my classes participated in the United Nations conference at the State Department and we had 15 students attend which was fairly large group.

I taught US History for the first time and really enjoyed it.

My 9th graders from my first year starting behaving like mature students as 11th graders (unfortunately that was only for me and they were psychopaths in our poor science teacher's class)

My arch-nemesis was RIF'd which turns out made my life wonderful and the teacher who moved into her room is amazing and the opposite of everything she stood for and helping me learn and grow as a teacher.

So I am officially bucking the DCTF trend and happily entering my 4th year at the same tough-as-nails school that I started in and looking forward to it.

After my hard-earned vacation I will try and get back to posting about specific issues and things I will be doing to proactively deal with them for next year. Hopefully that will make me do it?