I'm not tired of the students and certainly not the peer teachers and administration. Then I had two kids show up for the MS band camp. It was an emotional high for me to finally have some success and we shared a lot of fun times. They worked hard and accomplished a massive amount in two days. We had a special band officer's meeting to discuss the cycle of work-success-fun and my HS band camp was a whole different world of attitude this year. I read in a music ed journal about motivation a few months ago an article by Frank Kick () about motivation. The problem with no success is that is brings a complacency, an attitude of "it ain't gonna work anyways." Three years ago our athletics had a winning-less year across all sports. See there is no extracurricular sport or activity which experiences success thus far in the school district.
I've spent a significant amount of time pondering the sociological influences on traditions in my little town. The following is a photo I just took of the flute AFTER FIXING. So today she's getting her flute out and I was like, wow I should look at that sometime. I'm not sure what "bent" really meant, but they were fixing it right. I gave them the addresses of the shops I approve and they supposedly got it all fixed. I was all like 'whats that even mean' but mom apologized and swore up and down they'd make it right. Ok so her mom calls and says that Suzie got mad and bent her flute. She's a flutist and honestly pretty decent considering all the social, emotional, and intellectual barriers she has. Ok, so Suzie takes summer lessons from me at school every year. I'm feeling the stress, but I really feel like I was made for this. I'm genuinely happy to be back in the room. Yet despite the added work load from the new bossman, despite the excessive talking. I know the kids are not yet adjusted to sitting and behaving in a school setting. Not too bad for a K-12 district of only 300 kids.
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Right now I'm running a 5th grade band of 27, a 6th grade band of 24, a Middle School band of 26 and a High School band of 25 plus a guitar ensemble of 14. He's demanding and strict compared to what we had before, and I welcome that with open arms. He requires more work though, like teachers submitting lesson plans with standards attached and he's supposedly going to compare the standards taught with the ones on the state test to make sure we're preparing them.
I was one of the teachers who interviewed him and I think he's doing great things. We have a new principal who is a great guy. It's a friday night and the mood is right for sitting at home doing nothing but dishes and cutting some herbs from my garden. Three of the 8 were this week and honestly I have so much to do I oughta go back in tonight. I've only gone in at night to work 8 times now in the past 3 years-ish. Man I was excited this week to finally get back in the classroom with the kids.
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