Forgive me BLOGGERS, for I have sinned...

It's been almost 2 years since my last blog post. 

Due to a major renovation of our middle school, we were all relocated to 6 locations for 2 years while the transformation took place.  It involved a lot of storage trailers, 4 elementary schools, a vacant Catholic school, a wing at the high school, an RV named Ms. Lindy, and a unbelievable amount of patience, cooperation, and problem solving.

OHHHH what a journey it's been!  Since then, we've weeded, packed, redistributed, packed, unpacked, arranged, planned to pack, weeded, packed some more, consolidated, weeded, and are now UNPACKING!

If I had blogged regularly, the blog would have shared obvious patterns of self-doubt, confusion, excitement, frustration, successes, epic fails, learning curves, and questions. But mostly, there were A-HA moments.  Moments of learning, figuring it out, gaining perspective, and adding valuable lessons to my personal and professional toolkit!    In no particular order, some highlights that will be gamechangers for me:

• quantity of books does not automatically equal inspiration
• students adapt more easily to less desirable facilities than adults do
• the culture of the classroom dictates how much VOICE students have 
• the space should take less priority over the people in it
• leadership can happen anywhere
• change inspires innovation in some and depression in others
• it is very easy to be sucked into negativity despite positivity looming all around
• if you aren't enjoying what you do, everything seems like a lot of work

Pine Grove--The GREENER GREATER GROVE

Main area of the PG Library

So, with those lessons and a folder full of post it notes with new and transformed ideas, we are off to a NEW school, NEW library, and a FRESH start.  Stay tuned for our adventures!