TeacherTalk: What I Didn't Do This Summer.

Perhaps all professions dwell on the negative. The waitstaff at a restaurant probably worries about customers who are not being served efficiently more than they think about tables where the service has been good. Managers fret about the weak links on their team and often take for granted the players who do everything right. It’s easy to find fault with what we’ve done, and much harder to see the good in what we do. We appreciate compliments because we don’t give them to ourselves, so someone else has to do it.

And so I find myself near the beginning of the school year, nervous about all I wish I had read and planned, yet knowing that I’m probably as ready for my 150 charges as I’ll ever be. And, even though they don’t know it yet, they are ready for my class as well. No more Sunday night nerves—it’s Monday morning. Time to move forward, positively.