Cool as a Cucumber

It turns out that when you don't care about the results of an interview, you perform your best. I decided that I wasn't going to look at is as them interviewing me. After all, I have a job. Instead, I looked at it as a chance to interview them. Much nicer. The observation went well, too. My kids were in fine form and I was calm and relaxed (still not caring much what they thought.) It went infinitely better than I imagined when I was lying awake at midnight on Saturday. :)

PS - When a teacher asks you what you think her number one priority in the classroom should be, "The students, of course!" is a great answer. Don't ruin it by clarifying, "Student achievement." Because those are two very different things.