And is it too soon to start talking about next year? Man. I must be a teacher.

09-10: A diverse sparkling range of challenges and opportunities, including our team’s first four high *high* needs special education students, a passel of Beginner English Language Learners, the second half of blogging at ASCD, a Literacy Coach and new E/LA director who fully support the workshop approach I’ve been hiding for the past two years (and hopefully no longer, right, Doug?)… and a new building culture program for which I’ve been recruited. (We’ll see about that last one. I’m joining the committee to be the Pain in the Ass about insuring kid presence and the Voice for Intrinsic Motivation.)

But for now, looking forward to a quiet summer, for once, pulling my pieces together and nestling into family, friends, berry-picking and coddled tomatoes.

Thanks to the readers as always for making this blog such an amazingly rich part of my professional life. If you had told me last year that I’d have over 100 people out there in the world consuming my musings about education, I truly would have laughed. But today, I’m just grateful.