Real Talk: I quit my job and started my own business.
I did it for real. I left an amazing job at a high achieving school to start my own business. I am grateful and proud to have worked at this fine school for 10 years. I took this photo after walking out on my last day.
May 28th was my last day to be employed as a public school orchestra director. The blog had been QUIET even before that because I was just trying to survive the end of the (pandemic) school year and process all my feelings around my departure from SBISD and starting my new venture full time. I have spent the last few weeks decompressing and spending time with my kids and visiting family. I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to spend more time with my family and chase my dreams of having my own studio of students.
I would have never imagined that I would end up liking virtual teaching, but I really loved connecting with students in a new way. If I’m being honest, synchronous teaching was very hard. I loved seeing both groups or students every day, but it was just hard beyond description. Synchronous teaching is when you are teaching students who are present in the room and students who are on Zoom at the same time. It is impossible to pay attention to two groups of people at once and I always felt like someone was getting short changed which is always a bad feeling. I discovered my love for exclusively virtual teaching during our 5th period class. Important sidenote: I was fortunate enough to have a co-director to work and share duties with. 5th period was our most balanced class at 60/40 being in person/on zoom so we quickly decided that she would teach all the in person students and I would teach all the Zoomers so that each group would have someone’s full attention at all times. I realized that I had to learn new/creative ways to explain things and it made me a better teacher. I loved getting to know these kids' personalities and watching their skills grow in a whole new and exciting way. This class of kids turned into amazing little players and I have never even met them in person. That was so thrilling to me. Even though Virtual Orchestra School is a new business--this isn’t my first rodeo. Can’t wait to have my first crop of Virtual Orchestra School super stars.
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