Today is the first day of school at Odyssey Community School, the charter school I helped found 17 years ago. So it's also the beginning of the end of an incredible chapter in my life. I'll be at Odyssey until the Christmas break, helping with the leadership transition. Until then, I'll be doing everything an elementary school principal does...lots of daily interaction with beautiful kids, lots of coaching and guiding teachers, lots of reassuring parents that they're doing a good job (and coaching and guiding them when they're not), lots of paperwork for the state...and now, lots of reflecting on what my time at Odyssey has meant to me and to the school. More about this later.
Mark is going off today with a list of things that should be done before he leaves in mid-September: schedule a dryer vent cleaning; schedule a dermatology appointment; figure out how to ship his bicycle and his motorcycle to Boulder, etc, etc. I figure if you put everything you need to do in a neat, bulleted list, it's more manageable, more do-able. You can tick things off one by one and feel like you're getting somewhere. Anyway, that's what I do...I make lists. And, like most husbands, I know he truly appreciates it when his wife hands him a list.
My list is shorter, but it is the first day of school after all. And it's raining. I think it has rained on the first day of school just about every year I've been here. Maybe that's good luck. Anyway, I'll be hugging 180 soggy kids today!
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