I assume you are still collecting your December salary. Ask the librarian if he or she needs any help while you are in there. Like everyone, they often have many tasks to complete before the holidays.

PsyGuy wrote:
> @drett
>
> Why do you assume the leader was a "he", female leaders have just
> as big of egos.
>
Sounded like a guy to me, maybe I'm sexist. Guess I'll seek counseling. But you are correct- plenty of big ego females in schools .

We he is bragging, try and change the conversation to something that involves students. That is, after all, what the job actually is.

I contacted my principal at my last school to say I wanted to get a new email for him as I heard he was leaving to go to a new school. He wrote back saying if I used him as reference, he would say I was a good educator in many ways, but also would have to say some fairly negative things. Frankly things that I thought were not accurate and pretty unfair, and were never expressed to me while I was there. I was able to access my old evaluations and this was not reflected in them at all. They were very positive. I have downloaded copies of these evaluations and taken screenshots as well. I have taught more than 10 years at several different schools, but this was a recent 2 year stint and this guy was my only real supervisor. I honestly thought he would always be a solid reference for me. Now I don't even really want to use him at all. My thought is just to say I lost track of him and show my evaluations to any future prospective employers. I know colleagues are not usually "real" references, but would having one of them be the contact at the school, along with the evaluations, be reasonable? I have other references from earlier schools.

There are still a good number of jobs posted at TIEonline. Many in China, which had had a lot of new schools open the last few years. Like Sid said though, most hiring is done. So these positions are likely in places where staff has decided to leave last minute, which often isn't a good sign. Seems like you can always pick up some job in China or the Gulf area fairly late, but it's not going to be the best school.