Job Change!! ..... Out of the Comfort Zone....

Goodness.  End of the year madness with testing, testing, and testing... and now the joy, sheer terror to be exact, of moving my classroom out completely consumes me.  Why am I moving?? Well, I have the most amazing and most wonderfullest news!! It was the dreaded time of the year when budgets are formed and people are cut and added, cut and added... Our district has been in the implementing stage of RTI for years, but this year, certified interventionists (see that s on there ;) ) are being added at all grade levels.  So, as soon as the positions were announced, I was super excited to jump on it.  

Then, the dreaded happened....cold feet! I mean my feet were so cold they might as well be dead.  I can not tell you how many times I changed my mind about applying.  There were other's vying for the same position.  "I'll just let them have it. I am "comfortable" in my little classroom...." I told myself everything.  I seriously struggled with the decision.  I had to think, why was I so anxious to do it, then scared to death to interview for it.  I knew for sure, I wasn't the most qualified for it, so why humiliate myself in front of my peers.  The time came and I just had to.  I was a nervous wreck I tell ya!  

Not long after the interview, my principal approached me and said, "They chose you." She said it with a smile on her face.  I will never forget that sentence for the rest of my life.  The word "chose" sounded so much more.....picked.  Just think about your students.  Some you might have chosen to have because you knew their families...you knew their struggles from the previous year...and you chose them.  I desire to make children feel chosen because that feeling made me feel so special.  It also validated my initial desire, but I was to scared to see that I could have even gotten chosen.  So go out today and choose someone.  Don't forget to smile! 

Go ahead, leave a comment. When have you ever felt chosen for something?