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I got to work on Thursday and as I was walking to the main office the principal's secretary grabbed me into her office. She stated that she needed to schedule a time for my interview on tomorrow (Friday) Hunh? WHAT? I thought I wasn't in the running. That's what the principal told me. WHAT is going on? I was quite hesitant, but she said that the principal wasn't going to be available for some of the interviews, but she wanted to make sure she was there for mine. Huhn? WHAT? So she penned me in at 11. Grrr. I immediately went to my dept chair and expressed my fear. "I'm scared" was the first thing that came out of my mouth. He gave me a pep talk and after talking to him I called Mere. Talking to her comforted me, but not enough so I went to talk to one of the dean's. I asked him if he was on the committee and he replied that he was and I began to walk out of the office because I couldn't talk to him, but he told me to sit and talk. He gave me a pep talk and offerred me a book taht he reads when interviewing. He then told me to get a book from one of the other asst principals. Well, I didn't get much reading done because I had meetings on Thurs evening, but on Friday I wasn't as nervous as I'd thought I would be. But I went in for the interview and it started. I fumbled, I spoke over my words, I misspronounced word, ugh. They asked me: Define professionalism. Hunh, what? I had to answer what the difference btw a manager and a leader. I had to answer how I would address the issues of the high drop out rate and the high truancy rate at our school. I was asked how I wanted students, parents, and teachers to view me and how would I respond to a teacher who didn't like my decision of a referral that was sent. I was also asked how I would address a parent who says that I don't like his/her student. At the end I had an opportunity to add anything else and also and opportunity to ask questions. I had a question to ask, but my mind went blank. Ugh. I was embarrassed. I went back to my classroom and needed a pick me up, but I decided to let my speaker finish her lesson. I wanted to go to take a nap afterwards, but I stayed. I did sleep go to sleep when I got him at around 4:30. I didn't get up until it was time to work out at 7:30 am this morning.

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