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Summer break is a funny time for a typical educator.
Memes will tell you that you don’t know what day it is.
You’ll connect with friends from your school, or you’ll take a break.
In the Zoom era that we live in, you’ll join a meeting.
Your principal will say something like “I hope you’re enjoying the summer… * but*….”
Depending on where you live, you will go into panic mode come early August or late August.
You’ll feel “not ready,” or unprepared. Maybe you won’t feel that way.
In the end, you aren’t really set for the year.
And that’s the rub.
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Being an educator requires a scientist’s preparation and a comedian’s improvisation. The reality is that you are never ready for the coming year.
You aren’t ready for next week, and you aren’t ready for next month.
You will prepare, and you will adapt. You will make changes and you will fall in line. You will commiserate and you will complain. You will be everything you thought you would be, and sometimes you will be a shell of yourself.
You are a human working with other humans. Some will be small, and some will be big. Some will cooperate and some will tell you…
