School starts on Monday.
I am so excited.
I've spent the past three weeks with the most amazing staff in Kansas City (or maybe anywhere) getting ready for our kids. We've been planning lessons and practicing classroom management and creating a team culture. I think about my vision for the 5th grader that will be my own little family over this year and the reading students that I have the pleasure of working with in all three grades... and this year it seems attainable.
Of course, the beginning of the year is gilded with possibility without disappointment, which is when visions are the most vivid and the most believable. But I'll take that after a summer of feeling jaded and, frankly, losing faith in America. Today and this weekend and (Lord willing) this year I believe in the potential of our broken world to allow our kids to shine and show their magnificence.
So on to year three. Who would've thought?
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