At home for the holidays. I am feeling blessed to have friends to play music with and that the sun is shining and I am not just socked in with grey clouds.

I have some homework (reading and highlighting, no long essays) as our district is looking at renovating the ESL materials. In this era of Common Core Standards I find that my job is changing. Not that it hasn't changed every year since I started, but now I feel I find myself trying to navigate how the English Language is used effectively in the regular ed classroom and how to support language learners and their teachers.

The classes that Stanford offers through the MOOC (massive open online course) that focus on English Language Learners are time consuming and full of ideas and high expectations. I am mulling over the idea of taking the next one that is six months long instead of three. I was team lead on one last spring and it was a great experience. I joined one this fall that had no team lead ( It hought it did, but no one communcated ) and it was not a great experience. It was a lot of work to do the team lead, but I feel it was worth it.