Oh, I also did a phone interview with a local candidate. She and this job probably aren’t the right fit for one another, exactly, but I think she’s great. She left grad school ABD and has taught at her current school for ten years. She has done so many interesting things at her current school–revised curriculum, started a speakers’ series, contributed to the community in different ways. She is really looking for a new challenge, probably at a school that’s more open to innovation than her current school, and while SA is moving in some new directions and who knows what might be possible in a year or two, what we probably need and can offer right now is someone who can teach this particular tenth-grade course, and I didn’t feel right trying to entice her to come over and take a look at us–at this point, anyway. I was pretty frank about this, but asked her to please stay in touch.
28 Mar
Literature Should Mean Something in Your Life 