Today turned out to be a much busier day than I had intended. I went to work and spent much of the day providing training and orientation to my replacement. This is a good thing, as I want my replacement to do a good job, but I feel stressed and overwhelmed now by some evening projects I had intended to get done on this last night of being a "civilian."
Over the weekend, while sorting through my harddrive, I found some old videos of student speeches – I mean really old – they're from 2009, when I first started making videos of student work, at LBridge.
Lo and behold, in that collection I actually ran across three students that are still, today, my students! That means I can see them changed over a period of more than four years. I couldn't resist spending one free hour at work today (waiting while my replacement was in class so I couldn't spend it harassing him with my ideas about pedagogy) making a set of three "before and after" videos. It's so amazing seeing these kids growing up, to me.
I feel an almost parental pride to have been their teacher, on and off, over such a long time.