Be of Use

Right now my bosses are pitching a 1:1 initiative to the BoE. The hope is to grow the media specialist and instructional technology department to support a roll out starting in 6th grade for the 2012-2013 school year. Each year they'll add a grade until it moves up to high school. Both job embedded professional development and summer workshops are a part of the plan. They've put a lot of work into the plan...just hope it pays off.

Whenever someone thanks me for helping them, the line I often give them is stolen/paraphrased from John Irving's novel  The Cider House Rules... "we all must be of use." Since I graduated from high school 15ish years ago, I've been trying to figure out how I can best be of use to this world. I know I'm still working on this journey. My first attempt to be useful was in journalism, writing for the hometown newspaper, then the student newspaper at UW-Oshkosh the Advance Titan . I didn't see it as a career, so I moved onto the School of Education to be a social studies teacher. I never fell in love with that, but knew I my career path lay in schools. After graduation it was off to grad school to get my library media license, where I found a career that was a fit for me. Or at least for a while. As a library media specialist I loved interacting with all the district's students, staff members and families. I was working on information skills with high schoo...