Em Holliday

Having been so successful landing a job in Australia I figured I'd have no problem getting one here in Amercia. Boy was I wrong. The economy crashed, the USA started saving money through bigger class sizes (in other words they fired a bunch of teachers). In comes me with a puny 1 year's experience and hope. Well it's now November and my hope has gone. My determination is wavering and generally it's a bad mood. BUT there is always something. I've decided to get my Masters in Education From UW. In the meantime I'm going to get back into the curriculum. I've downnloaded the Power Standards from Washington School District and I'm going too expand my content knowledge. Reading through the Powers I recognized lots of words/terms/concepts I once knew but have forgotten. So I'm going to go through each power, dissect it, define it and provide examples for it. I'm working on Kindergarten Math, Reading and Writing first. This will take me a while but it will also get my curriculum brain back into gear.

So works sucks - subbing is not what I want to do but I'm dragging myself into the light and switching on my brain again after an 11 month hiatus. Lets see where it goes.