It's been a hot minute

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 The year has not started out as I had hoped. I thought the new curriculum would energize my teaching - it didn't. I thought using some of the BTC strategies would energize my teaching - it didn't. And it dawned on me this week, only I can energize my teaching. So I have to find a way to get my mojo back. It's only been 6 days of school and I'm already over it. I'm not sure what I need to do to get excited, but I need to do it quick. 

I was talking to my brother last night, who is retired, and I said that I have about 4 more years until retirement. After I said that I thought, really? Can I make it four more years? I'm tired. Really, really tired. I know that I need to lose some weight and workout to get my energy up, but I'm tired. 

Yeah, this is a little rambly, but sometimes that helps me figure out what the problem is. I think at some point this weekend, I'm going to sit down and really read through the curriculum. I mean I've read it, but I've read it with a goal of knowing what to do and say. I think I'm going to read it with the goal of determining what the actual goal of the lesson is and then adapt it from there. I have never been able to use someone else's curriculum verbatim. I always need to give it my own twist, but I need to know what I'm trying to accomplish with it before I can do that. So time to really dive into it. I can do this!!!!

Alright, that's all I can muster today. I will be back later in the weekend to update more. 

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