In Service in Kotzebue, Ak

We flew back down from Kivalina to Kotzebue Monday morning for in-service. Most of the teachers were given a sleeping bag and a blow up air mattress. About 200 teachers camping in the school, it is a combined K-12 school, each has their own wing. Not the Hilton but it could be worse. School supplies meals 3x a day, pretty good stuff. Pretty standard stuff, although there was a presentation on Rachel's Challenge. She was a 17 yo girl killed during the Columbine high school killings. She promoted kindness to everyone. She somehow knew she going to die at a young age but wanted to touch the hearts and souls of millions. tears were flowing freely. She now has an organization named after her promoting kindness and all the other values she stood for, Very powerful. Had lunch, looked at school data, ate supper with Katie and Emma at school. They are great and will be so fun to work with this upcoming year. My other co-workers also are awesome people, everyone has a great sense of humor. It will not be an boring year, that is for sure. We do have our work cut out for us though with the kids. We will be till Thursday afternoon then fly back, more updates later.