P-A-C-T

I just submitted it and the weight has lifted. I'm about to burn it onto a CD and then this chapter of my life will be closed, or I hope. Earning a credential, though I want to minimize it, has been this incredible journey of making a decision about what I want to do as a profession, committing the time to pursuing it outside of my job, and having an amazing group of people in my cohort who are going through the same things I did. Who will talk to me for an hour when I just needed someone to tell me "Submit it" or who I can talk about charter schools with or who I can go to concerts on a weeknight with or who I can drink with on Friday night.

I'm scared about losing this group of people as much as I am about moving to New York this summer or submitting my report cards for my school administration to review. I have learned that we learn best from each other, which is what teaching should actually be about.