04-16-2008, 12:50 PM
This may be a "no-brainer" (also, I know which way I'm leaning), but would appreciate your feedback.
I've been offered a teaching job in SPED at Laupahoehoe Elementary School. I also have a web-based video conference set up to interview with Kamehameha Schools on April 29th for a Literacy Specialist position.
It sounds like KS contracts the position out to DOE schools (Pahoa, Keonepoko, Kea'au, and Mountain View Elementary).[?] I would be just at one school though - no traveling. I have a M.Ed. in Literacy and have found that most schools do not fund Reading Specialists or Literacy postitions. It's exciting to see that KS really cares enough about literacy education to fund these positions.
I don't know if I will be hired for the position after the interview. (You just never know). I think it's a perfect fit for me, but they may see otherwise. Do I take the sure thing, or hold out for what I really want?
My fiance and I would like to live north of Hilo on the Hamakua Coast near Ninole or thereabouts. Laupahoehoe was my first choice of DOE schools due to distance. I really wouldn't mind commuting to Kea'au, but definitely not to Pahoa.
Thoughts anyone?
Mahalo,
Beth
I've been offered a teaching job in SPED at Laupahoehoe Elementary School. I also have a web-based video conference set up to interview with Kamehameha Schools on April 29th for a Literacy Specialist position.
It sounds like KS contracts the position out to DOE schools (Pahoa, Keonepoko, Kea'au, and Mountain View Elementary).[?] I would be just at one school though - no traveling. I have a M.Ed. in Literacy and have found that most schools do not fund Reading Specialists or Literacy postitions. It's exciting to see that KS really cares enough about literacy education to fund these positions.
I don't know if I will be hired for the position after the interview. (You just never know). I think it's a perfect fit for me, but they may see otherwise. Do I take the sure thing, or hold out for what I really want?
My fiance and I would like to live north of Hilo on the Hamakua Coast near Ninole or thereabouts. Laupahoehoe was my first choice of DOE schools due to distance. I really wouldn't mind commuting to Kea'au, but definitely not to Pahoa.
Thoughts anyone?
Mahalo,
Beth