Just like in one's personal life there are milestones in a professional career that mark new beginnings or what I think of as growth spurts. I call them growth spurts because when you find yourself in certain situations the only way to survive is to stretch or grow.
For example, four years into my new elementary teaching career I found myself smack dab in the middle of an ungraded primary classroom......growth spurt. I was faced with a multi-age, multi-ability classroom and encouraged to use developmentally appropriate practices, which meant I was scrambling from day one to teach a room full of 6, 7 and 8 year olds how to read, write and cipher arithmetic.
There have been other growth spurts in my career like transferring to a different elementary school, earning my National Board certification, completing my educational administration certification and now blogging.....growth spurt. Yes I am ranking blogging right up there with the rest of them. You might ask why and I would say because this is real stretch for me. I can think of million reasons why I shouldn't be starting a blog: I can't write, I don't have anything interesting to write about, and TIME just to mention a few.
So that's leaves the ONE reason why I have decided to blog........it's time for a growth spurt and I suppose this one is self inflicted. Look at me being all grown-up!
I am starting this blog as I near the end of my fifth year serving as assistant principal of a middle school in rural Kentucky and I'm getting that feeling. You know the one. It's the one that says you have done this for a while and you're "decent" at your job and you start thinking about using "auto-pilot". Screeeech!!! It's time for a growth spurt, so let's start blogging. Hopefully it will be of some benefit to anyone who might stumble upon this humble post and the ones to follow.
Mark Twain once said, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
I don't think I was born to blog, but maybe I will be able to grow and stretch just a bit more because of it.
