Change.

We started back to school this week, with great anticipation of what the 2017-18 school year will bring for our teachers and our students. Inevitably, lots of change is happening in our district right now. We currently have an interim superintendent, and will have a new superintendent once our committee finds the right candidate to lead our district in the future. We have hired and are continuing to hire many new teachers to lead our classrooms and ignite the flame of learning in their students.

During the week before students arrive back on campus, we will host our second annual teacher conference where teachers and administrators will participate in 6 different professional learning sessions, either refreshing their knowledge on a favorite topic or participating in new learning. Either way, we will be modeling the characteristics of lifelong learning that we hope *all* of our students walk out of our doors doing.

While attending these sessions, we have to remember that learning requires change. A change in thinking, doing or believing. That's the uncomfortable part. It feels weird at first to do something different from before. However, if it doesn't feel weird, then you probably aren't making a change.

I look forward to this year of change. We will work hard. We will add new tools to our toolbox. We will fail and we will be successful. We will look back on this year in June and marvel at all of our accomplishments. Then we will rest for a few weeks and do it all over again :)

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden