a day off, from vacation?

I found a coffee shop with free wifi this morning, and have spent the day thinking and planning.

I took some time today to focus on the upcoming school year, and how we'll approach what we're going to teach students over the course of the coming weeks. I enjoy this, and have been doing this for the last several years. There are theme and topics that we run through every year. It helps to frame the year if we know where we're going and what we want to cover.

I made some pretty good headway with my lists today, tackling both the middle school and the senior high groups. I have more than enough topics. Now I need to sort them out, figure out good/logical progressions, and figure out how to work the topics into some interesting series. It would be great to have a few more creative minds to work alongside me. I have a few trusted creative types, but I can think of a few more I'd like to enlist.

I may come back to this post later, but for now, with my battery power at 6%, I'd better jet.

Off to dinner, and the family vacation!