Been A While

It's been a while since I've blogged, and a lot has happened in the past year. I'll try to catch us all up, and hopefully I'll keep writing.

Since my father passed away, I finished and published his last work, Stories My Dad Told. I am quite proud of that. I've also been working on his other unfinished work, a genealogical study of my family. It is very interesting to learn about my family's colorful past. I will probably write a blog about that sometime soon as well.

At school, I began teaching both 7th and 8th grades. It has been a challenge, but it's also been very rewarding. Being able to spend two years with middle school students gives me the chance to get to know them much better.

We're still working on Name calling and bullying in the middle school, but progress is made every year. I continue to hope that name calling will become a thing of the past before I retire.

My cross country team is on top of the world this year! The Middle school boys team has won 8 invitational races, and are quickly becoming THE team to beat this year. I can't describe how proud I am of them.

In ELA, New York has come up with a new way of teaching students, and we are really doing our best to work our way through this new process. I can only hope that students will become more successful with each passing day. It is my hope that soon, ALL middle school students at Afton are successful in their academics.

To be continued....