I've accepted a job in 5th grade at New Haven Unified!!! (prayers answered!) What school am I at? Well, I am at 2 schools actually...both Pioneer and Kitayama. I have accepted the wonderful JOB SHARING position that most people tried to avoid at all costs due to the not-so-ideal schedule it requires. I, however, prayed and prepared myself for my job. I would say I was pretty fully prepared for my new classroom too, especially for not knowing what my job was going to be. I spent about 2.5 hours in Target getting school supplies (30 minutes alone spent deciding on the perfect planner). I and my team got up early, crossed the bridge to the Children's Book Project in San Francisco- millions of reusable bags in hand - and loaded up on books for my future classroom library (a library for students of a grade that I did not know I was teaching yet but I went the feeling in my spirit that said 5th grade books were what I should be collecting). I was mentally imaging how I woul...