Wicked Insights

I love Wicked, it's my favorite musical...until I start talking about musicals and realize how many I love.  So during my prep on Friday, I'm singing at the top of my lungs (there are benefits to having a portable) when two of my girls come and get me.  One of my boys has gotten upset and run out of class.  The teacher who was teaching the class wanted more help.  Ok...I  don't even register embarrassment about singing loudly (and a little pitchy.)  I run outside thinking that we don't know where the student is, but we did.  He was sitting under the canopy and in clear sight.  We'd sent for the principal as well.

I have no idea, really, how I'm going to handle this because I don't really know what this is.  The principal and I decide that since the student is really upset and says he can't talk about it yet that he should go to my classroom and calm down before we chat.  We go back to my room, I turn down the music and think, "Maybe I can still get some vocab graded." Nope, he decides to start talking as soon as we get back to the room but it is hard to tell what is true and what has been construed.

So after school, I'm reflecting on what happened and trying to figure out what I need to do when "For Good" comes on.  If you haven't memorized every single song (like me), then you may want to know the lyrics I'm referencing,"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and help them in return." The profundity of the statement hit me yet again.

In my short teaching career, I have met a bunch of students, their parents, and extended family.  I have grown so much: learned new content and ways of instructing students, different ways of managing organization, navigating professional relationships with my colleagues, and a better sense of who God has created me to be.  I have grown, yet I know I have much more to learn.

I still don't really know what to do with Steve Prefontaine, but it is clear to me that we're being given the opportunity to grow some more.