Alayna had a good but busy birthday this week! On her actual birthday she got to go to Young Women for the 1st time and loves it! She is excited that she will be able to attend the next temple trip in October and we are planning a family temple trip when Marisa gets back!
We went to Olive Garden for her special dinner and going to Orange Leaf tomorrow for her requested dessert.
She started volleyball this week and is enjoying it. Bob helped her set up a net in the backyard to practice and Kayla has been practicing with her.
We went out one morning as a storm was brewing and the sky was absolutely one of the most beautiful things Alayna and I had ever seen! I tried to get some pictures but it definitely didn’t capture the majesty of the moment!
Bob, AKA Captain Awesome, made grape jelly from the grapes we grew this year and it was so very yummy!
The kids at the HS LOVE the new set up, the maker spaces, everything!! We were told we have the best room in the school!
Tyler has been sick. Anyone shocked? Kayla saved my butt at work by knocking off several projects. Alayna and I bonded yesterday watching Jaws 3 and the Jurassic park: the lost world while I sewed a gazilliion things. We need Marisa back to help with the mending…lol
Warning: Long story you don’t have to read…
God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we think he will or the way we think he should. Although this is a life lesson, it was very evident to me this week.
A little background 1st: Last year, I was told since I was a new teacher, I would have to be evaluated. I was assigned the high school. The other teacher who goes to both schools was assigned the middle school. I was jealous. Why did I get the awful principal and she got the nice one? As most of you know, it was a tough year but I passed the evaluations.
This week: I got an email from the new HS principal saying she needed to see me in her office to discuss “past evaluations”. I started out the day in tears and angry just knowing she was going to say how much the old principal says I suck. I get to the middle school for our big meeting as a staff on individual professional development only to find there were no papers for me. I asked the middle school principal where mine were and she said since I was assigned the HS last year, then I will stay there. Again, I was mad. Why do I have to do my professional development at the HS when I teach at the MS? I had to book it over to the HS to catch the staff meeting there.
At the end of the meeting, she had a list of all teachers to be formally evaluated and I was on it! What the heck! I just did that! So I went up to talk to her and she said, oh yeah, you were evaluated last year so you are good. Next day I get an email saying to come see her in her office because since I am a new teacher to the district I will have to be formally evaluated for 2 years (let the barfing and stress ensue…). So I went to go see her and she pulled out the master contract to show me. There is a clause in the master contract that says if you have previously taught in Iowa for 3 years, then you only have to do 1 year of evaluations so I don’t have to do them this year!!!! I almost cried there too.
Then, here is the clincher: all the new teachers at the middle school, regardless of whether they have taught in Iowa or not, are being formally evaluated for a 2nd year and HAVE to create a new portfolio with 45 artifacts proving that they meet all 24 Iowa Teaching Standards!!! I am so eternally grateful for a father in heaven who knows what's best for me. What if I had pushed and begged for the middle school? Eeek!
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