Teaching jobs in CT

A friend has very helpfully pointed out that my former bff from high school is now English Department Chair of a charter school in Hartford. We did not part badly, we just sort of drifted, so she could be an excellent resource.

I did point out that I do not, do NOT want to be working for her. The dynamics would awkward, to say the least. What she may be able to do, however, is point me at schools that are hiring and/or put in a good word to other department chairs.

Lesson plans progress

Monthly pacing guides for two out of three classes are done! Sitting at a cafe without my laptop yielded an extraordinary amount of work completed :)

The third is a seniors honors class. The old teacher kept the pacing guide roughly the same as the regular class, except that all writing assignments had a 10% longer word requirement, plus maybe one extra short novel. The department chair made it clear that she does not like this arrangement, and so I need to give some more thought and consideration to what I want to do. Probably I will choose a few short stories that have more challenging themes and more subtlety and mix those into the syllabus. No extra novels. I don't think I could handle it.

Next steps: I have the literature text books and can start drawing up daily plans for the literature sections of the two classes with finished pacing guides, but for the grammar sections I am going to have to get access to the school. For some reason I did not grab the grammar, vocab and SAT workbooks at the beginning of summer.