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some days you’re just good at your job
every interaction is meaningful and sincere,
some more complex than others, but all necessary.
there’s a spring in your weary step
like you’re floating from place to place.
calendar invite, after calendar invite, after calendar invite:
pre-school emergency safe guarding meeting,
quick curriculum planning session, focusing on
new conceptual questions, integration of
learner profiles dispositions, and new assessments.
teach a class: going deep into logic
and how to skilfully weave evidence into analysis.
quick lunch, then duty on the field, where you help
two groups of sixth graders resolves a dispute
about who was using the goal first,
respond to an email about a student who is struggling,
touch base with the secretaries about the
form to help class placement for next year.
on to a meeting with the service team
and high school daraja about their
planned event for next year. quick chat with the designer
in communications about the visual you are working
on for the personal and social education working group.
respond to emails about students who are struggling.
talk to teachers about next steps with a kid, their class.
receive a thank you note from the student
who was a slow reader,
who you wrote a poem about a few weeks ago.
attend a meeting with the k-12 social committee
about end of the year gifts and celebrations.
it’s now five o’clock.
end the day asking questions on a panel
for the new principal hire.

wonder
if this is what they mean
when they ask
for experience
in leadership.