But I still my soul
and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother’s breast; my soul is quieted
within me. Psalm 131:3
Stillness is a choice, again and
again.
Be still,
And the word for February is I
purpose to engage… And being still doesn’t necessarily mean kneeling on my
floor, waiting.
There can be a centered stillness
as I step out each day and engage. And while I don’t think it’s quite time to
engage with the clashing outside world, I can purpose to really engage with the
eyes and heart of each of my kiddos.
Man, it is so easy to get caught
up in the daily broken computer keys and coming up with a new seating chart and
discussing schedule changes and should we have three periods of study hall a
week for seventh and eighth graders and there went another planning period and
calling or emailing parents not often enough and Saturday school lists of
missing assignments because the end of the quarter is almost here and oh, yes,
she has been out all week with strep throat and I have to get her homework out
to the front desk by lunchtime and all of those stacks and stacks of Vietnam
Era tests and kiddos researched The Presidents powerpoint presentations while I
worked on my own The Middle East Conflict in 18 easy slides or less and works
cited still like they have never seen it before and Acceleration lab journals
and To Kill a Mockingbird essays and what is an allusion and Journey
poems peer revision sheets and all of my grades were supposed to be loaded up
onto the buggy website two days ago but I was busy judging the spelling bee
yesterday during my first planning period and cutting out little squares of
construction paper for very stressed out students to gluestick onto their
boards during lunch and today is the science fair and the other middle school
science teacher is amazing and she organized TEP and U of A and Raytheon and
Arizona Desert Museum and Reid Park Zoo where she used to work to set up
exhibition tables but it’s going to be a crazy late night and don’t even
getting me started on how Arizona is changing its teacher certification policy
so I have to wade into producing original sealed transcripts once again and
forms and long lines and more checks made out to AZ Dept of Ed and I still have
to figure out how from Tuesday’s professional development meeting how to hook
up my iPad to my promethean board that never quite works right and utilize it
every day in class for instructional purposes.
Be still.
And purpose to engage with the
eyes and hearts of each one of my kiddos.
Selah.
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