National Share Your Desk Week

Ok, so it's not REALLY National Share Your Desk Week, BUT I was sitting at my desk last week thinking how much I feel like my work space really tells a lot about my personality and approach to my work.

Above, you can see a full view of my work space.  Probably to no one's surprise, it's colorful. It's also full of momentos from my teaching days, a place for me to collect things that inspire me daily- like comments from my corps members, pictures and silly staff awards- as well as a small little place in the world where I get to embrace my love of all things office-related (pens, markers, tape, paper clips, staples, eep!)

Let's take quick tour, shall we?

Moving left to right, here is my basic view while I work. You can see my water glasses and bottles, my little calendar with adorable little pigs (PIGS!), the map showing all of my corps members' schools, notes from my awesome corps members, as well as a few pictures of my amazing former students (faces smudged out) and a sample writing from one of my former amazing pupils, where she wrote about her goals for the next 5 to 10 to 20 years. It gives me great focus and reminders for why I work as hard as I do.

Along the same line, last year my corps members decorated my desk for "Program Director Appreciation Day" and left me colorful, amazing, happy notes about our work together. I still read these when I'm feeling frustrated, down, or just feel like smiling.  Plus, they're BRIGHT. which is totally what I need my work space to be!

It's a somewhat crappy picture because of the sun, but you can see some of my organizing systems at play here. I'm HYPER organized at work, and have a place for everything (and everything in it's place.)  There are more momentos here, with notes from my OWN Program Director, more pictures of  my students and my work team, as well as my collection of business cards, and books for teachers.

Ah yes, my top drawer.  Underneath my favorite pens (which I have to keep in a drawer because pens mysteriously disappear from my desk,) I have a very organized set of staples, paper clips, pencils, and markers.

Next drawer down are note cards for when I visit classrooms, post its, and stationary. 

Doesn't everyone have a food drawer at work?  Topher decided one day at Costco that we needed Sun Chips in our lives, so I have lots of remnants of those.  Lots of soup, popcorn, oatmeal, and little mini breakfast bars. Yum. What's in your food drawer?

So I'd like to put a little blog challenge out there to all my peeps- what does your work space look like? How does it reflect you and your working style or personality?

PS You are welcome to share your personal home desk too!