Rains it pours right?

Not many of the blogs I check out regularly update on the weekends (regularly there works in two different ways of reading that sentence. me=english dork), so I think that increases my regularity of wanting to post on the weekends.

Here are a list of goals I have for myself in the next we'll go with ten years but may be sooner than that:
1. To become a great teacher, duh.
2. To work out a system with portfolios based on the student reaching the standards rather than an artificial assessment of the student work.
3. To come up with a safe way for students to let me know how I'm doing without either party feeling pressure or emotional distress.
4. To stay away from the tempting desire to make the exact same lessons every year. Lord help me if I'm teaching the same lessons I teach this year in ten years.
5. To have a concept of better ways to assist students in reading books.
6. To have a concept of better guidance for the writing students do, especially the creative writing.
7. To become Nationally Board Certified (this one seems more like a prestige thing than anything but I'm not sure if I want to stay teaching in CA and this seems like something that might be good for teaching anywhere.
8. To get a masters in Education with a focus on teaching critical theory as a way of reaching students no matter what their post high school plans are. (Yes, I really loved critical theory way too much)
9. To be a good cooperating teacher for a student teacher or two. This one is difficult since I think I won't be one very willing to give up teaching larger numbers of people, but one that after student teaching I believe to be VERY important.
10. Most important: to have as many students as possible leave my class feeling more empowered to affect the world in positive ways than when they first came in.