It’s going well. I spend too much time at my school, but I can already see my kids learning a lot. I have 14 of them, and they range from advanced to true beginner. We’ve got a good culture going, and they set big goals for themselves that exceed the state standards - they even argued with me when I tried to bring them down on 30 books per person! I’ve shown them how the words in our word journal and the books listed in our annotated bibliographies will lead me to fill in those charts, and I’ve explicitly told them that our big goals will help us pass the NYSESLAT and the Regents exams. They got excited by that, so I must be doing a lot right. Now if only I could get home before 8…
Actually, I stayed that late tonight trying to set up smartboards and configure my printer. I succeeded in both, but figured out that smartboards aren’t as cool as I thought - they require a projector, whereas I thought they were backlit. Anyway, I have my supplies neatly organized, systems in place, and life more or less figured out. Now if only I could find time to administer the rest of my DRAs…
