A Message From The Highwire

Do you ever feel like you are looking down at the world from the highwire? Tip-toeing across a tiny little wire, attempting to balance your professional and personal lives without coming crashing down on your family, friends, coworkers and students in a heaping pile of failure?

I’m sure every teacher feels this way at least once during the school year. And for me, it’s been as of recent. These past few weeks I have been doing a delicate dance way up there – trying to manage my assessment and reporting requirements, PD goals, dissatisfied parents, and to-do lists for my sister’s wedding (as well as my own). Luckily I have incredibly supportive coworkers and administrative team, who have allowed me to vent and problem-solve solutions to help me pull out of a funk and back into my usual trapeze-artist-self. I am fortunate to have a caring and encouraging fiancé who listens to me day-in and day-out and tries his best to give advice about a world he has no experience in.

I guess my basic purpose for this post is to say: when it feels like you’re about to crash and drop all of the balls in the air, it really does help to lean on the people around you, who have gone through similar situations and make you feel like you’re still unstoppable.

5 thoughts on “A Message From The Highwire

  1. Courage, Mackenzie! We’ve nearly made it to the long weekend and then March Break is within reach. Hoping that the stress of wedding planning isn’t taking the fun out of it for you! 🙂

  2. It has been a few months since you made this post. How are you feeling about the highwire these days?

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