A quick update to an old thread. Penny interviewed for, and was offered, an Ed Tech III job. She was told she was overqualified but that they really wanted her -- she very sensibly took the job> Means she is committed to it this academic year but nothing to stop her applying for teaching positions next academic year.......and by then she will have two full years behind her in the S.Portland schools and it will be much harder to argue she is not experienced enough. The money is horrible, - I repeat - horrible -- but it has benefits, sick pay -- and it is working with kids which she loves to do......

I know she will use this as a springboard to a teaching position next year.......