Now it's Really Over

After numerous drafts and a few tears, my Masters program is done. I can' believe I did it, very proud, and very relieved. Where do I go from here? Well I recently took a position of Vice Principal at my high school and.....registered for my second Masters program, this time in Spec Ed. I know, I know, why would I want to go through that again? The fact is that I enjoy learning. I moan and complain while I'm in the thick of it, but deep down I love it. Every time I finish a course, I am surprised at my accomplishment. Guess thats more of a confidence issue rather than an academic one. A second Masters may also open some doors for me down the road. My biggest challenge at hand is the new VP position. What kind of administrator will I be? What kind of administrator do I want to be? It is a daunting challenge, one that I hope I am prepared for.

I think that I will still focus on technology. I have already volunteered to take over the schools web page. It can be better, a lot better. Planning of school goals also interests me as well. Odd I know, but though grad school, I came to realize that not only am I a geek, I am also a researcher. I find my grad course work leaking into my day to day classes. I try to engage my students with interesting topics while infusing some cool technology. On more than one occasion, I have had my students research a topic and reference where it came from. I'm not so worried about APA or Chicago style referencing, just enough emphasis that the kids know it's important to acknowledge the owner of the work.

I would like to be a connected administrator, just not sure how that looks or works. I follow a number of administrators on twitter and in google reader. Spending a day or two with them would be an enlightened experience for sure. The whole purpose of being connected though is to inform. If no one is paying attention online, then what's the point? There it is, how do we get parents connected to the school, how do we get teachers connected to Web 2.0? How do we engage students? The number of questions seems to only grow. Which one do I try and tackle first?

Once a geek...