Day of back to work and a late night

Yes, this entry is very late at night, been busy all day and all night.

First day was back, though it took me till about 2:00 to have the same problem that I had earlier. One child decided that he would be the straw that broke this camel's back. I overreacted, but apologized afterwards.
One of my kids may have moved, I'll see what tomorrow brings.
I tried to introduce a couple of new things today, did not necessarily take off well, but I'm not going to give up on them just yet. Slowly introducing more of the Brain Book. The next part will be a reading rate (wcpm) chart so they can see how they are reading better, as opposed to having reading level only in there. I just need to have more accurate, precise, and concise explanations for these things. I tend to be long winded, and that is not good for first graders. Also need to make more of an effort to model correct work.

This evening I felt a push in a good direction. While reading over some summaries of education articles I have come across two potential growth points for myself. By growth point I mean potential career turns. Both of them invovle starting something new at my school.
The first one involves changing the work atmosphere and collegial nature of my school, especially in terms of professional/staff development. I think it the staff worked together in more efficient and effective ways they students achievement could improve. There is definitely work I need to do in terms of research and background reading, but it is worth it. If implemented correctly it could definitely help the students at my school, and potentially the whole district. We just need to work on being more reflective. The district is close, but they seem to need just that extra nudge to get them going in the right direction.
The second involves a comment that my Grade Level Chair made to my principal, and some talks that I've had with her. I do enjoy working with the lowest students. It is something that a couple of teachers at my school have noticed. I just love the moement where they get it. It makes my job worth it. Now, with that comes a problem though. The students that need that one-on-one time can hardly get it effectively in the classroom with potentially 20 other students. Some of them get that help during interventions, but sometimes if TAs or parapros run them they do not get the best effect/benefit. There is a program called Reading Recovery that I think would benefit some of the lowest first graders at my school. It is a big system to initiate and operate, but I think I could be an effective Reading Recovery Teacher. I think setting up the system in the school would be difficult at first, but I would be willing to see it through its start-up period. There would be some difficulties, sure, but I think they benefits would offset it.
This being only my second year and not exactly on the most solid footing, I'm just trying to figure out the best way to go about floating my idea around. It would be difficult work, but I completely believe it would be worth it.