Back in Class, Sort Of

This is a cow at a rest stop. I am not writing about a cow at a rest stop.

I started a journey back in September. In order to renew my Tennessee teaching license I have to take a class. I figured since I had to go back to school, I would start working on my Master's degree.

It would be totally boring for me to list all the hoops I've jumped through to get to the point of registering for classes. If you have ever dealt with anything remotely bureaucratic then you can imagine all the paperwork, phone calls, meetings, emails, etc.

Fast forward to today. Before I clicked on the final button to register for class, I decided to call the state licensing agency to make sure the class I had chosen would fulfill the requirement for licensing. This is the conversation that followed:

Licensing Lady or LL: How much are you paying to take this class?
Me: Over $1000, for three credit hours and all the fees.
LL: Have you heard of ed2go?
Me: No.
LL: It has professional development courses that you can take for $90 each. They take six weeks to complete. If you take two that will fulfill the requirement to get your license renewed.
She gave me the website and detailed instructions for the paperwork she would need when I complete the courses.

I signed up around 12:30 and finished my first lesson before 1:30, with a 100 on the quiz. Yeah me! Only 11 more lessons (and another course) and I'll have my license back. Then I get to go out job hunting again.

Oh, about graduate school. I plan on going eventually, once I have a job and can pay for it. I've been accepted into the School Leadership: Reading Specialist program which is 36 hours. That's a lot.