One Small Step!!!!!!

This week has been a very fast paced week.  I had applied for the Director of Reading position for Dallas ISD and was granted the opportunity to interview for the job.  However there was a lot of work that had be done prior to the interview.   Last Friday I was given 27 pages of data  to analyze and prepare a PPT to outline what improvement strategies I would use as the new Reading Director------so of course there was a lot of  researching and preparation  that had to be done.  My interview was Friday it consisted of a 15 min PPt Presentation, 20 min. Q& A and 30 min. writing activity.  WOW talk about an hour of pressure!  Now comes the waiting and praying. 

As I prepared for this interview this week I thought about just how far I come in my professional career.  As a classroom teacher my ultimate goal  was to provide the students I was responsible for with a love and unquenchable desire to be curious and life long learners.  I have always been the happiest when I am around children.  As I take a moment to self  reflect on my place and position as a leader it becomes more and more important for me to search my heart and truly analyze my motives as a leader.  I never started out wanting any of the jobs that eventually got-----one job would lead to next and so on and so forth.   Through the course of the various jobs there have been so many valuable lesson I have learned.  Lessons that were not always career related, these lessons were just good old down earth teachings about life itself!!!! Lessons that made me a little more appreciative for the things that I have and lessons about  humanity and true agape christian love.   If given the opportunity to take a new job-------I know there will be many new lessons for me learn.