To quote the ever-effusive Sam Cooke, “…a change is gonna come.” Emotions ran high as I turned out the lights on the classroom where I had worked for the past eight years. As I have said to parents, teachers, and administrators at Highlands School time and time again, “I wish I could stay.”

As to the reason(s) why I chose to leave, I may leave those to the prognosticators. Suffice it to say that my situation has changed. I’m ready to work closer to home, to do my part as a “breadwinner,” and in short, to begin again.

One of the things I love most about teaching is the continual renewal; the start and end of every year. It is so satisfying to be able look at each year as its own separate package under life’s Christmas tree. The constant, ticking time clock of the school year makes that easily possible. So, I am anticipating another beautiful summer, but most of all another exciting fall. Who knows where I will be?

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