Lobby Day!

Today I made my way to Austin for Lobby Day! It is the one day of the year that AFT tries to get as many teachers as possible to the capital to talk the the legislators about what we, as educators, want and expect them to do during this legislative session.

I took our 12 year old with me. I felt it would be a great experience for her, and it was. She was excited about seeing the capital. She took all kinds of pictures and walked all over the capital building. I want her to see how we fight for her and other students to have a better education.

The next couple of weeks will be interesting around here.

We are on Spring Break right now. I plan on spending time with K and the kids, but I also have to plan for the weeks after I return to the classroom. The TAKS test is coming up 5 weeks after we get back from Spring Break and I have to do what I can to give the students the necessary information to enable them to have the best chance possible to pass the test. So I will be spending some of the time this week preparing some lessons, strategies, and items 9like flash cards) for them to use.

K is really great in bouncing ideas off of. We start talking and the ideas start coming. She gave me this idea about making matching cards and it has taken off on its own. I am taking things that have appeared often on past TAKS tests and making cards for them. Both picture and word cards. Where the students can match the name with the picture and vice versa.

I will be bouncing more things off of her all week long I am sure.

We have continued to talk about moving. There are a couple of job fairs coming up in April in the area we are very interested in moving to. The reservations have been made and we are making plans to spend the weekend up there when the job fair is taking place. I am going through the fliers, checking to make sure I have everything in order that they are asking us to have. I need to purchase a file folder to slide things into and out of easily. I may have something already now that I think about it. I was given a leather file folder type item during a college field trip to a chemical plant. Hmmm.... where did I put it?

We have decided to go up there, attend the job fairs and see what happens. It would be nice to be in the position to have to decide about the move due to a job offer.