Step 2 - Interview

TJ got called today to set up an interview for the assistant principal job. He would have been really bummed if they didn't even call him for an interview. It is scheduled for 2:00 on Thursday. He gets out of school at noon that day, will come home and get changed and mentally ready and will then head out for the hour long interview. We are both excited about it. Of course, TJ is nervous, too. I am sure i will be pacing the house with Jaely for a couple of hours. If he gets this job it would be quite a change. In my first year of earning an annual income of $0, a considerable higher salary for TJ would be awesome. It would be quite a change in schedules too. He wouldn't have to leave the house at 6 in the morning, but on some nights he would be coming home after Jaely is in bed. When he is home, though- like on Sundays and most evenings, there will be no paper correcting, grades to enter, or weekly lesson plans to make. Most importantly, this is something that he really wants to do, something that will help him continue making the changes that he started, but couldn't take further as a teacher.

TJ is planning on learning from this interview experience, and he will whether he gets the job or not. He admits that he will be bummed if he doesn't get it and his efforts will, he feels, be unvalidated, but he still loves teaching- so it won't be the end of the world if he remains a teacher. I hope and pray that he is pleasantly surprised and gets the job. There are, of course, people applying that have principal experience and a masters in educational leadership, but those people are not familiar with the staff of MHS nor its goals like TJ is. We will see! I stopped saying "if" and started saying "when" in our conversations about when he becomes principal. I like the sound of it.