I have a link to this blog at the top of my browser toolbar so that I am reminded of it daily. Every single day this week I looked at it and thought to myself "I should really update that at lunch" but every single day this week I was working through my lunch just as feverishly as I worked through the rest of the day.

Every week, though, gets a little bit better in some ways. I am CONSTANTLY learning with this job, and I'm grateful for that. It will be years before I feel like I know even the majority of what there is to know about teaching, but at least for now I'm making progress. My mentor teacher is a saint. This week she helped me see that I'm doing a great job for the amount of experience I have and the amount of hours in the day. She showed me that I"m on the right track and gave me practical advice for how to keep moving forward. I feel like I'm doing well. I'm using data to inform my teaching, I'm getting to know my students, I'm planning ahead and using the learning goals and objectives as a guide for how I plan. There are a thousand things that I didn't learn in my undergrad or during student teaching that I'm picking up as I go along. I guess that's the way it should be.

In the meantime, I have a laundry list of things to do. I love working on the north side because I have tomorrow off for Yom Kippur :-) A whole day off to work on school stuff.....