Yes, it's true
Yes, it's true. After 30 years as a public educator, teacher, and administrator I will be retiring at the end of this school year. To say the feelings are bittersweet is perhaps the greatest understatement I have ever uttered. Yet, I am at peace. While I will be more reflective about my last 30 years in future posts, I want to make something 100% clear; I am retiring now because I have had the most rewarding and fulfilling career I could have ever imagined. I taught 5th grade for two years in Indiana, and over the last 28 years in Novi I have taught 5 th , 6 th , and 1 st grades. I was a co-principal at Novi Meadows, and I have been principal at Novi Woods since 2011. There have, of course, been stumbles and struggles, but the joy and relationships I have built could extend multiple lifetimes. I only hope I have been able to return and inspire just some of the joy, love for learning, and kindness that has come to me from colleagues, parents, families, this comm