I am starting this post with only 30 free minutes and I probably need longer but here goes:
Since I wrote the last post everything has changed. I had convinced myself that my best career option was to stay where I was but somewhere deep down I really felt like I needed a new challenge. That little niggling feeling that I needed to go out of my comfort zone started to niggle harder and I found myself in a situation where a position presented itself that seemed like too good an opportunity to give up. So I applied, was shortlisted, interviewed and got the job! The position title is Staff and Student Leadership: English and Whole School Literacy. It is a leading teacher position at a brand new school currently being built on Monash University Campus in Clayton that is opening next year. Whilst the position only begins next year there is much to be done before then in order to get an English Curriculum developed that will see the students off to a good start next year. The school is 10-12 and is predominately a Maths/Science school so the cohort will be significantly different to what I am used to. It is designed to be a school with cutting edge technology and the teacher with the e-leadership position is innovative and amazing at what he does so I am really excited about the amount I am going to learn. I am excited about the leadership team who I will be meeting in full the first week of the holidays and I am really looking forward to throwing myself in the deep end again for the first time in a long time. To be in a totally new environment with a new team to work with and with a new role and new challenge is something I am really looking forward to.
Having said that, I am sad that I am going to be leaving such a fantastic workplace. I am sad that I will leave behind the first school I worked for; a school that has given me every opportunity to pursue my dreams and goals; a school that has taught me so much about people, schools, teaching, leadership and myself. I will always be thankful that I started teaching in such a wonderful environment because it is partly due to that nurturing that I was able to get this promotion.