A good friend and fellow educator of mine, Micah, is looking for some help with her school’s library. What a great cause, a great mission, and a great way to meaningfully give back. Help out. I am.
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted anything – but there’s good reason, I promise. I finished graduate school (yay!). In August, I began a library job in a Virginia high school and it’s kept me stressed, excited, and challenged all at once. The people are fantastic. The rent really is not. My boss is wonderful. The distance from family and the guy is not. The apartment is adorable; the management is very much not. It’s 50-50. You get the picture.
The school is huge – around 2500 kids. A lot of the students have nothing at home. But wow, do they love reading! This summer the library underwent some major changes. Thirty or so computers were moved to create a new lab for another department. This presented the library with both an issue and a solution because a lot more class traffic was present to use the computers in…
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