Oh, did I really just type that out loud? Hmm.
Here are the top six things that made me excited about the month of March in my classroom AND in my personal life:
1. I figured out how to use our district grade book tool to email a grade level's worth of parents in one single click. AMAZING. Now I don't have to ask my homeroom teachers to pass on an email, like asking someone to pass a note in the hallway back in high school. You know, before there was text messaging and origami was a strongly celebrated way to pass time in the "boring" class.
2. I worked with our campus technologist to get better at the online learning platform I've been planning to launch since November 2015. I'm closer and closer to being ready to launch my lessons into high gear--I'm SO PUMPED about this! My launch goal was late March/early April, and I'm going to MAKE IT HAPPEN! WOOHOO!
3. I got to meet my niece. And I no longer call her my "sister-in-law's baby," because she's mine. All mine. I snuck a framed photo of my husband and me onto her bookshelf on the morning we left. She's 4 months old, but it's important for her to know that she's surrounded by her favorite uncle and aunt at all times. And that we love her deeply.
4. I have a choir of 105 students, and we are singing at a Houston Astros game in April. Ticket orders came in, and we sold 360 tickets. That means that each child is going to be CRAZY supported at our field trip and have many, many groupies cheering them on during our pregame concert. Absolutely beautiful, and exactly what I had hoped would happen.
5. I didn't kill my rosebush in my flowerbed at home. My gardenia bushes, however, remain in ICU. Texas is hard, y'all. More importantly: gardening is hard, y'all.
6. I chair the PBIS committee at my school, and we had an amazingly productive meeting at the end of March. We had some tough conversations, and did a whole bunch of mediation to get to our end result. We came together, talked things through, and developed a really terrific plan to roll out some much-needed changes and updates to our campus PBIS implementation structure. I'm seriously pumped about what's coming around the corner for my school in terms of PBIS, and I'm so proud to be on the team that's creating the changes and making positive motion.
Celebrate, y'all! Spring is HERE!