This time next year I'll be in the trenches, working to level the appalling achievement gap in this country! Specifically, I'll be teaching elementary school in Chicago. Which when you get right down to it is not all that specific, and could end up being anything from K-8, but it's as good as I'm getting for now and it's all that I wanted.
Congratulations! My first teaching job was not teaching art but reading! I was fortunate enough to get a graduate assistantship teaching reading to K-3rd grade in a failing school in the Bronx. I still remember many of my students names after all these years. It is an experience that changed how I looked at education and made me a more invested and committed teacher. I wish you the best of luck and know you will have an amazing year!
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