{"id":4379,"date":"2016-01-06T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2016-01-05T21:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T05:32:03","slug":"same-school-year-but-new-year-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/06\/same-school-year-but-new-year-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Same School Year But New Year Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-years-eve-1058678_640.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-years-eve-1058678_640-400x279.jpg\" alt=\"new-years-eve-1058678_640\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-years-eve-1058678_640-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-years-eve-1058678_640-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/new-years-eve-1058678_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Being a career educator in K-12 always makes New Year interesting. New Year is a great time to start over and focus on meeting your goals or making new goals altogether. And yet the week before winter break we started a lab in my Science classes that we are finishing this week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only been one month but we started a lab in 2015 and are finishing it in 2016. Seems pretty cool when you think of it.<\/p>\n<p>If I had one class of students all day I might have spent more time our first day together of 2016 reflecting and thinking about the new year but I only briefly mentioned the new year and asked if everyone had a good break with my first period class. Then we went right to business on the second part of our 2015 lab. I really hadn&#8217;t thought much about the new year, I was just really excited about continuing our lab investigating the force of gravity by distinguishing between mass and weight and designing a short experiment to analyze the relationship between mass and weight. Even short experiments are fun.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I have been thinking of the new year. I&#8217;m not big on resolutions but I do welcome the opportunity to reflect on my goals and to work on them full steam ahead.\u00a0 I have a lot of exciting projects coming up that I&#8217;m going to be working on and I&#8217;m looking forward to them. Part of me hopes I haven&#8217;t signed up for too much but that&#8217;s part of the excitement! I&#8217;ll be sharing my experiences and learnings in future blog posts. This weekend, thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/06\/another-cool-partnership\/\">OSPP<\/a> I&#8217;m working with, I will be at a Common Core training with the Washington Core Advocates Student Achievement Partners. Two days in Seattle working with great people is going to be fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m starting 2016 thinking about all the things I have to be grateful for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My wonderful family &#8211; I have an incredibly loving and supportive wife and daughter that I treasure.<\/li>\n<li>My school &#8211; I really do enjoy working in Chimacum Middle School. I work with awesome teachers and I&#8217;m having a great year with my 6th graders.<\/li>\n<li>My health &#8211; I&#8217;ve been working hard to get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/17\/redefining-oneself\/\">calves<\/a> strong enough to be able to run injury-free. So far I started off 2016 by running a New Year&#8217;s Day 10K and I got a good time for me without hurting my calves! I am trying to get back into my training for a marathon. If I can start running 10K&#8217;s without injury then I&#8217;ll work towards another half marathon by the summer so that maybe next year I can try a full marathon. I want to try at least one!<\/li>\n<li>My career &#8211; I&#8217;ve been joining some fantastic groups, attending great trainings, and presenting more and altogether those activities are keeping me revitalized to be the best teacher I can for my students. I&#8217;ve been getting more grants to provide more for my students and I have a few proposals still out there. I&#8217;m finding that I am living a growth mindset by using failure as a learning experience and not letting anything stop me from doing what I want to do and accomplish what I want to accomplish!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more to be grateful for but that&#8217;s what is most present in my mind. 2015 was a great year and 2016 is already looking to be even better! I&#8217;m just happy and excited at all that 2016 has to offer so far, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just going to be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a career educator in K-12 always makes New Year interesting. New Year is a great time to start over and focus on meeting your goals or making new goals altogether. And yet the week before winter break we started a lab in my Science classes that we are finishing this week. 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