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Refresher: I’m pursing a Master of Arts in Teaching to hopefully someday teach middle grades Language Arts or Social Studies. I can get an alternative certification to teach now, before I finish the program, if I’m hired. Since the school year has already begun I’ve been planning on the other option: student teaching in the spring and then job hunting next summer. Until this morning happened.

Yesterday I had an observation at one of the local middle schools in a Language Arts classroom. I loved it. It was life affirming. I walked away with a gigantic grin on my face feeling like, yes, this is definitely what I want to be doing with my life. I actually bemoaned that fact that I’m not a teacher yet.

The teacher yesterday advised that I do whatever I can to familiarize myself with thinking strategies. So this morning I was pinning away on Pinterest the various schema related things I could find. On Pinterest my former high school arts and humanities teacher follows me. She’s now an instructional coach at a middle school in our district. We often repin each other. She sent me a facebook message a while ago wanting to know where I was working this year. She said she had an idea to pick with me and asked me to call her.

I did.

There is an 8th grade reading position opening at her school. Long, weepy, story short, she wants to go to bat for me and put in a good word with the principal. In fact, I just got word that he says I should apply. There are no guarantees but it’s looking like I could get an interview. She called me a ‘dynamo’ and says she loves the adult I’ve become. My facebook posts, my chickens, my recipes, my energy. I cried, of course. She has always been one of my favorite teachers and to now see her offering to root for me to fill this position is making me a weepy mess.

Good things are happening. Finally.