I only signed back on after realizing I’d underestimated my principal and the part I could play in his game plan for next year.

We’ll see.

I don’t think it is impossible at all at the high school level. Our freshman math, English and biology teachers are all teamed, so every freshman (ideally, a few slip through the cracks) have the same team teachers. We make time for the teams to meet independently of the departments, so they can discuss their own small group of learners.

Also, in our departments, we meet once a month in content areas (Alg 1, Alg 2, Geometry, Precalc/Trig, and “other”). This has really helped our horizontal alignment, and once a month we meet to discuss vertical alignment.

We actually have really close and supportive group of teachers, and I think the different ways we meet forces us to really think of ‘the other guy’ when we do planning.

If you’re anywhere close to postal codes 75050 or 76117, I hope you’ll call.

If I had an opening, I’d try to snag you so fast, you’d have whiplash.

And I’d actually prefer a grits bar in our cafeteria, but I don’t see that coming anytime soon. Before your readers who live in the real Deep South complain, Orlando (and most all of peninsular Florida) definitely doesn’t qualify as the Deep South so the grits thing is really more of my personal preference. Now if you get up into the Panhandle of our fair state, that’s another region altogether.

But now that I think more about it, a grits bar would be awesome; something like a baked potato bar but without the foil wrappers.

If you are going to be in the bay area still, we have openings at DCP. I can’t remember what your opinion of charter schools is – but if you’re interested in visiting, let me know.