courtney rebecca

Huzzah! I'm still employed. ;) Our district announced $40 mil in budget cuts yesterday, and my position did, in fact, get cut to half time. However, my principal said they expect enough retirements (from librarians) that I will be able to be half time at my current school and half time at another school. Not an ideal situation, as I'll basically be doing two jobs instead of one during the same amount of time, but given the whole district situation, it's a relief! Praise God!

Today I took care of my teaching license. An awesome thing that has happened in the last couple of months is that I got a new job! I'm going to be a K-6 Librarian at a great elementary school. This has been a dream of mine FOREVER, and I'm super excited to finally get to do it. Scared too, but that comes with any big change. I used to be a high school Math teacher, so this is a HUGE change. Today I took my final step toward officially becoming a "Teacher Librarian" (what they call school librarians here) by adding an endorsement to my current teaching license. It's just paperwork at this point, but it feels so good to be official! I'm a Librarian. ;) This picture is from my grad school graduation celebration in May. My awesome t-shirt was a graduation gift from a librarian friend from my church in Texas. Thanks Beth!