The Day is Approaching!

This has been one of the most rewarding months of my life!  The energy I have given and the energy I have received has been like nothing else I have experienced in my life. I am also keenly aware of how busy you all have been lately - yet you have managed to keep up with the work. In a little over a week, we will engage in a five day event that will bring us together to create a support network that will eventually support hundreds of teachers and tens of thousands of students.  You are pioneers, and I am very proud of you - you accepted this challenge with very little details (testing your tolerance for ambiguity) and you have completed every requirement.  You don't know how much respect I have for all of you.
I am looking forward to next week, and I want to give you one more challenge as you prepare yourselves - we will work hard to come together as a team, one that will ensure that this academy outlives this first year and our own needs!  Having said that, by the end of the week you will need to have narrowed in on a research interest, a topic you want to explore in great detail.  As you do so, I will expect that you push me as hard as you can so that I support you through the next five months - I am ready, anna goewy jedan!
If you have given me your concept and ten terms, and you have responded about the lunch on Saturday, then your homework is done. Please continue to read the blog, to comment, and to submit posts.  I want you rested by next week, but not too relaxed or lazy :)