>> [Inaudible] said at the beginning that every day it's different,
and for me, that's really, really important.
I have, I like to get into schools.
I like to seek to meet with staff and students and parents and see what they're doing.
I love to go into classrooms with, this year I spent a lot of time going,
doing walk throughs in classrooms with principals.
Well, for me now at this point, I don't see the children as much as I like to
because I'm removed and I'm at district office.
And so having been in schools for 15 plus years, and now being removed from schools,
that's a challenge because you're, everything I do is focused on raising student achievement
and student learning and effective schools, but I'm kind of isolated in that I'm
over in this building over here, and I'm affecting all of these buildings over there.
So with something like that, that's a challenge for me personally that I have to look
at the new positives and outcomes of my job that in the past I could see firsthand.
You know, I can go in as a principal, you know, you're working with a teacher,
and you see the impact in the classroom, or you're working one on one with a child,
and you see how they've improved academically or behaviorally or something along those lines.
You really see that one-to-one connection when you're right there at the ground level,
and this way, so I'm kind of challenged that way.
The other challenge is, that goes along with is, you know, and I was, my education at, you know,
as a teacher in working with kids.
And so you're taught to work with kids.
And so as a school leader and as an administrator,
and when you get into district office, you're working with adults all the time,
and it's a different it's a different type of environment that you have to get used
to because it's just not the same.
You know, you're training for, becoming a teacher is not the same as being a training
for becoming a leader and then a leader of leaders,
which is another part of my job as well.