Today marks the first day of the last quarter. I have 9 weeks of school left in my first year of teaching. And just like when I was a student, it is going by all too fast and all too slow. I could not have had a better orientation to the teaching profession than I have had this past year. Between the people I work with and the kids I get to invest in, this has been wonderful; challenging but wonderful. I have had days when I sit in my chair at the dismissal bells and marvel at how wonderful this profession is. On the other hand, there have been days that I would not relive again for all the money in the world.
All this to say, I have nine weeks with these students. Sure, some of them (Molly) I will never "get rid of". We have already planned wonderful travels for all of her graduations. But there are other students that I have for the next nine weeks and that is it. That is the mindset that I am trying to keep when they are driving me up a wall; all I get are these next nine weeks. Any vision or hope I can speak into their lives, I better do it now. Encouragement I want to give them, confidence I can build up, all of that has to be done now. I don't get a second chance with them. So tomorrow, when I feel like I did in fifth bell and I want to kick half of the class out, I will attempt instead to pull kids aside and cast vision for what school could be. I know, that sounds so nerdy. But, for some of my students, it could be the one time that someone stops yelling and instead invests, speaks vision, and calls them to more and better. And that could make these nine weeks priceless.
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