Things are good
Things have really been good lately. Since I started running everyday I feel calmer and happier. I am still tired as everything but I am sure it is because I get up so early for school and don't get a nap like in the summer.
Today I asked my students what I could improve on as a teacher to help them more. Most students wrote very positive responses like "I think you are doing great". Of course there was the occasional "less homework" and "more games" but hey out of 58ish students I will take a few as that I am doing great.
I did not like to hear that I am starting all over again this year in terms of my evaluation. I am anything I did last year can't count this year, in some ways that seems right and in others wrong. She told our staff that nothing counts because we have to show growth like our students do but isn't their growth based on what they did last year? Oh well. I ended today in a good note so I will take it.