I am at the yearly Project LEAD week-long seminar. For those of you who aren't familiar with it-- it is Monday-Friday, 7:15-4:15. That time frame includes, wake up time to get home time. I always feel compelled to blog during this week because it puts me back in the school mindset. This is the last year of the LEADership program. This is what I have learned from the program over the past three years....(in no particular order) 1) Teachers will pick through a bowl of fruit salad forever, regardless of how long the line is behind them. 2) Teachers get mad when there is not any regular Coke or Pepsi selection at lunch.
After three years in this program, this is what I have learned.... 1) I am going to go into administration, then work in a county office. LEADership does not equal poverty. I am grateful for the opportunity that this project has given me to realize my leadership skills and the direction that I want to take my career in. I will end with an Alice In Wonderland quote that I relate to and you can draw your own conclusions as to why...
The caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
'Who are you?' said the caterpillar.
Alice replied rather shyly, 'I-I hardly know, sir, just at present, - at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
'What do you mean by that?' said the caterpillar sternly. 'Explain yourself!'
'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
