The one constant in life . . . change!

Well the end of the school year approaches and I like my students am looking forward to a change in venue. I’m headed to Louisville, KY next week to read essays that were written by students taking the AP U.S. History test along with a select group of other teachers and professors across the nation numbering about 1,200. We will spend 7 days straight reading and scoring more than 1,000,000 essays written by over 300,000 students that took the test. It took me 4 years to talk myself into this task last year and it was not as bad as I’d pictured it and have signed up for duty again.

Linda will fly in at the end of my time in Louisville and we will drive down to see our son (Mark) and his family living in Wilmore, KY while he is attending seminary there, Asbury Seminar. We will spend a few days visiting them and our two grandsons that they are holding captive there before returning to Oklahoma.

Later in June Linda and I will drive to Philadelphia stopping to see my brother in Ohio and an uncle and aunt living in Pennsylvania on the way. Linda will fly back to Oklahoma on July 5 and I’ll stay the next week attending a seminar covering Benjamin Franklin. I’m an alternate to attend another seminar the following week at Niagara, NY and hope that someone can’t make it opening a slot for me to attend. I’ve been really lucky in years past and have attending a number of these seminars offered by the NEH (National Endowment of the Humanities) For all you liberals out there a good use of taxpayer money! :-)

Just found out today that I’ll be a department head for the History Department next year and I’m really not to sure how I feel about that. I was happy with the previous leadership but internal politics dictated a change and I told my boss that I didn’t really want the job, liked the previous leadership but if there was a change in the offing I’d be willing to step in and fill the gap. Next year is setting up to one of a lot of changes that I’m not looking forward to, two teachers that I am closest to are looking at making job changes that could require new hires to replace their positions. The one constant in life is change I guess.