Teachers: I love 'em now

I'm interviewing participants of a recent program we did for teachers to get some additional evaluation data. Today I had four and by the end of the third one I was dog tired. She had a lot to tell me - much of which was not what I had asked for. Evaluation doesn't necessarily mean you are asking participants to evaluate your program. It is for getting a clearer idea of their experience, and how program choices impacted their thinking. I am happy to receive suggestions for our programs, however, but by email. Enough said.

Luckily, the fourth interview was really uplifting and I got to learn a lot about the person's school. He told me they're doing a unit on water that includes every subject: math, science, social studies, literature, etc. It was really exciting to hear directly from a teacher what they're doing in the most cutting edge high school programs. Honestly it's far ahead of our undergraduate programs here at Ohio State.

I want to get out of academia but stay involved with teachers. As much as I hated them as a kid, now I think they're awesome. There must be a karmic tie. . .