Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Summer Vacation

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
                                                 - Earl Wilson


The best part of working in education is summer vacation. Especially this year. I didn't think I would make it to June.

When I first started this job our school was just a small country school. It consisted of 20 classes and I was the librarian with a library collection of 8000 books. I loved my job and arrived every day with a smile on my face. I couldn't believe I was being paid to do what I loved.

As the years progressed so did the school. The enrollment increased, requiring additional classes and textbooks were added to the library duties. Shortly after that we began a new program called Dual Language Immersion and I not only had more classes but the number of textbooks doubled and were available in both English and Spanish. Recently we began checking out Chromebooks to the children and starting next year I will be converting a section of the library into a MakerSpace area.

I'm no longer a librarian. I perform multiple duties and the school has grown significantly. I now have a library collection of over 17,000 books, an additional 6,000 books are checked out to classroom libraries, over 100,000 textbooks, consumable workbooks and teacher's resource materials in English and Spanish distributed among 44 teachers and...953 Chromebooks.

I definitely need a vacation!!!

I'm looking forward to spending time this summer with my grandchildren, family and......my art materials!!!


In case you thought I was exaggerating!