a sigh of relief

I am in the process of working on Entry 4, which shows how I communicate with parents, work as a learner (so workshops I go to for my professional development, etc.), and how I contribute to the greater music education community. Up until about 10 minutes ago, I thought this was going to be my weakest entry by a long shot. Nope. I have to have a maximum of eight accomplishments to show examples of these three things. Some accomplishments might cover all three, some might cover two, and some might only cover one. A draft of this entry is due on Thursday at my cadre meeting. I wonder how many other teachers in our district are doing or have done EMC Music. I'm thinking I might be the first one. Wouldn't that be cool!?

I have several people who have offered to help me out during this process by giving advice when I ask, and by proofing my entries before I submit them in March. I just got off of the phone with one of these people. She answered a lot of questions (more than I thought I had), and was able to give me a lot of good guidance as far as what sorts of potential accomplishments that are bouncing around in my brain could actually work as accomplishments (all of them!!!!!!). I thought I was only going to have a couple of accomplishments to talk about. I'm going to have to either lump things together (where I can) or pick and choose what to include. I like that prospect much better than the alternative. :-)