Head Goat - To Be or Not To Be?

That is the question.  As part of my yearly evaluation,  my goals included completing my masters.  I have one more course that will be finished at the end of July.  My ultimate dream was science coordinator and things could not have been more aligned for this to happen.  My boss, science coordinator, retired at the end of May.  She has been the one to encourage me to return to school, to reach outside of my comfort areas and gain as much experience in leadership as possible to prepare me for this time.  While I will apply and have her recommendation, it will be a tough application process with others just as qualified doing the same thing!
That all happened end of May, beginning of June.  My interview could not have gone better as far as I think.  I had my pros and cons listed out with reasons why cons could be a pro.  I found out mid-June that the job was not for me.  As I had to wait many days to find out yes or no I had already prepared myself for an answer of no.  I was happy with that and was looking forward to one more year as an instructional coach.

Speaking of instructional coaches, all but one of the coaches were headed to a conference the same day I found out that the job was not mine. (In our little group, we have a saying - "punch the goat!"  It wall came about because Carla mentioned she punched the goat too hard one evening.  Of course we all figured she meant she had too much to drink, but in reality she punched the goat too hard, as in a real goat who eats the horses feed when she goes out to the pasture to feed them so she punches them to get them to stop.  So after a long day or a bad day, we might be heard making plans to "punch the goat.")  When we arrived at the hotel that night, it was a night that the goat would be punched!  And also the night that our goat saying evolved into much more.  The girls called me head goat, Angela mama goat, and Alicia diva goat.  Why head goat?  Well, when I was informed that the job was not mine, I was also told that something else was in the works but they just couldn't tell me at that time but that they thought I'd be really pleased and excited to have it.  Curiosity got the best of this goat and we created every possible scenario that it could be, of course except what it actually was.  One idea being lead coach, or head goat. LOL!

We returned home and on that last Tuesday in June, the assistant superintendent asked me to come by her office.  The other job? Not head goat.  But instead math and social studies curriculum coordinator.  Was it certificates or expand my horizons or do what our team had done for science?  We may never know, I may never know, but it was a promotion, one I asked for, maybe just not the subject.  Who's up for a bit of change - this girl better be!