Went to both schools today to try to get ready, as the rest of this week will be tied down with meetings, etc. MJH is coming along--I still have to pick out what exactly I want to do on Friday, but everything else is pretty much ready to go. I mean, there's things I'd LIKE to have done, but don't HAVE to be done for day one ( Read more... )

Though several parts of last week's orientation were tedious, I'm glad we had it. I feel so much more comfortable and aware of what I have to do. And getting to meet other teachers at my school and in band in other schools was cool too. I don't feel so isolated anymore, and have really started to feel comfortable at MJH ( Read more... )

Went today for my first day of five St. Tammany Parish new teacher orientation days. And damn... talk about too long and drawn out... I can only imagine what's going to happen the rest of this week ( Read more... )

I'd jump on the address bandwagon too, if I had some place cool for you to send me mail, but instead, I'll just be livin' it up at home with the parents. BUT I get to be an only child again... it only took 22 years to get back to that status ( Read more... )

Yesterday marked the end of my summer of teaching privately. As much as I was glad to be done and be able to devote more time to getting ready for next semester, I did feel pretty bad about having to tell some of these kids goodbye. I only hope that I wind up liking to work with my kids at MJH as much as some of kiddies from SCR. So far I haven' ( Read more... )

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Next year I'm supposed to be teaching at two different schools, which is OK (though I'd rather just have ONE program to worry about) since it's my first job and all and I'm a good district. WEll, I'm based out of MJH, which is where I've been spending my time, but today I drove out to the other one, Lee Road. No one had much to say about that ( Read more... )

I'm heading back to MJH tomorrow to try to get more things in order. I'm excited about doing things my own way, and there's a lot of stuff I want to kinda fix up differently. However, I find it hard to know what I should be doing. I mean, I KNOW I need to have some music copied and ready to go. But I have no clue what my instrumentation is ( ( Read more... )

Using another icon--still Beatles, but wanted a little change....

Went over to MJH today to scope things out. The good thing is that there's a lot of potential over there, and I'm feeling much more confident about things. The bad thing is that the previous director left it a WRECK over there. No lie, I put away over FIFTY arrangements today that were scattered all over the room, with parts heaped into a big ( Read more... )