I went to a conference tonight that I didn't want to go to because I was grouchy that TFA took my three-day weekend and turned it into a mandatory conference. One of the panelists, Sophia Pappas, stated that D.C. is one of the few places around the country that TFA put early childhood corps members. Not only that, but I was in the first year to be placed in P.G. County. Not only that, but in reality, my school is really good. I could not have been placed in a better school as far as learning how to be a good early childhood teacher goes. I have an early childhood coach, for goodness sake. Early childhood coaches, in most people's understandings, are the ideal that they are pushing for but will never happen. And I have had one for two years - a really good one. I've had monthly professional development through my school as to how to run a quality early childhood program. Ms. Yancey let me do my thing without interference, and Ms. Pegram is supportive of just about anything as long as I have the data to back it up. All of these circumstances aligning is not coincidence. I have been lead, guided by the Lord without knowing it.
Elder (then President) Bednar used to tell us that we needed to have movement in our lives. If we were moving, then the Lord would nudge us into the right lane. If we pulled off to the side of the road and parked, waiting for directions, the Lord couldn't do much with us. We have to be moving and acting. Well, I was moving with as much clarity as I could manage, and the Lord did nudge me into the right lane. What's ironic is that it took me going to this conference to realize how much the Lord really has guided me. And the next question, I suppose is, Why? What was so important for me to learn or to do that the Lord would fix the time schedule so that I heard about TFA and applied just after the early childhood initiative began, and the first year that P.G. was open, and I was placed at Matthew Henson? Now that I have the knowledge, what do I do with it? That, I suppose, is the next step.