Today's picture is not the most exiciting picture I've ever taken, but it pretty well explains my life right now. The state of New Mexico requires teachers to submit a professional dossier before the completion of their fifth year of teaching. Basically it's a VERY detailed and lengthy paper on your teaching practices and it includes references and work samples. There are three sections, each requiring different information, different work from students, work with colleagues, blah, blah, blah. I have been working on this since September and at any given point since then it can look like a trash can threw up in our office. Papers, documents, resources are all strewn about in an effort to get to the finish line. While there is no set deadline, I have a self imposed deadline of Christmas, so I have taken a couple of days off of work this week to try and make the mad dash to the end. The end is in sight, but it still isn't complete. Today's effort was a little lacluster, but I have officially finished the first section and made the corrections. The next two sections should be easier to finish and my Christmas vacation should be dossier free. Now if you'll just send good vibes my way and pray that state says the ENTIRE dossier meets expectations so I don't have to redo anything.
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