I am not going to lie, I feel pretty great to be practically done. This was such a challenging year personally and professionally for all of us. It is now clear that we were naive or crazy to take this on. But for me, it makes it that much sweeter that I finished, really what I started 20 years ago when I did the coursework and did not complete the thesis for a masters in administration. I am grateful that this program was designed with the end in mind and it was not completely separate from our classes. That was very helpful to me. I don't really have words of wisdom but I am just feeling thankful right now. I am so thankful and a bit apologetic to my children for the many hours over the last year that I was busy working on my masters and letting them spend an exhorbitant amount of time on their ipads. They might not be too upset with that. :) I am excited about the new doors that may open for me because I have this piece of paper. I also am thrilled I was able to conduct research, that was the most exciting part. I have continued my research project with additional data cycles as it is just good high quality teaching. It is exciting to see how far they have come in their academic oral language. Once we have the time to conduct our own research, imagine what we (and our students) can learn. That would be a hope for our future, what if we all could conduct research of interest to us within our classes? What if our schools and districts supported this for us? Amazing things could happen!
A final note of thanks to my Touro Professors, Napa Learns and to the wonderful people of Cohort 19 for your support!
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