I am Imagine
Long story short, our charter school board has opted to give our charter to another management company. (I currently work for a wonderful charter school operations company called Imagine Schools.) So, I won't have my same job next year, which is beyond devastating because I have poured my heart and soul into this school for three years. Everyone within Imagine has been so wonderful, e-mailing our regional director about jobs for us. Another region from Florida is coming to meet with some of us tomorrow and we have been told to bring resumes. Of course, the new management company will probably offer most of us jobs to try to retain awesome teachers and the families who are at our school right now, but most of us want to stay with Imagine. So, I have some options:
1. Stay at my school, work for other company. I would only do this if I knew that the new school Imagine is developing in our region would open in 2010 and have a job for me. (This is Imagine's plan, long-term.) And, it would be a miserable year. (I don't care for the style of the other management company.)
2. Try to find a job at another Imagine school within Florida and move not too far, or maybe not at all. (Not at all is a slim chance as there is only one other Imagine school in our region now.)
3. Try to find a job with Imagine somewhere else in the country and move really far and totally start over.
4. Get Mike to find an awesome job in Michigan; move back there and switch careers.
5. Win the lottery and retire to be a southern lady of leisure.
Options #2 and #5 are preferable right now. :o)
It's all so crazy at school right now. We found out last night, so this morning was really sad. Everyone was red-eyed and hugging and biting nails and asking, "Well, what are we going to do now?" I mean, we all know that we'll have jobs. The other company would be lucky to have us and Imagine is amazing, but we're such a family. It'll be hard to split up. I love my middle school teaching team, and if we all scatter to four or five different schools, that would be hard. It would be especially difficult to not teach with Linda, my co-coach on the cheer team. She is awesome and I learn so much from her. Anyway, it's just a really difficult situation and I don't know what I am going to do now.