Yesterday was an Optional Workday and today was a Designated
Workday. I opted to work yesterday and worked today as so designated.
Yesterday was spent working in my room, putting up a few posters,
looking over the schedule, posting duty dates and meeting dates into my
calendar app, and talking with each of my teaching team mates to see if there
was anything I could do as team leader to help them get ready for opening day.
We also had a training session yesterday, spur of the moment,
for the team leaders to learn how to use the new online program for finding
substitute teachers when we have to be out. Now it is our duty to teach the
other members of our team how to use the program. The program itself is easy
enough to use, once someone shows you how.
Most of today was spent in our first Staff Meeting of the year.
The meeting lasted from 9 a.m. until 12:40 p.m. We did get a break around 10:30
a.m. for a brunch buffet provided by some of our business partners.
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Before the Staff Meeting everyone who works at my school
gathered in the gym for a group picture. We were all wearing t-shirts with our
school name and logo emblazoned on the front. The photographer arranged us on
the bleachers, shortest on the lower benches, tallest on the higher. We all
thought it great fun to be gathered in one place, all wearing the same shirt.
Lunch was on our own. I was in the mood for some McNuggets and
there is a McDonald’s only a couple miles from the school. It was 1 minute
before 1 p.m. when I pulled into the drive-thru lane. 6 minutes later I hadn’t
moved a single foot. 6 minutes waiting in the drive-thru line at McDonald’s is
too long. The truck that pulled in behind me turned around and left. The car
behind him turned around and left.
The wait became too long for me, too, I turned around and left.
It’s one thing to wait in a line for 6 minutes when making progress. Waiting 6
minutes without any movement in the line at all was unacceptable.
Instead of McNuggets, I wound up at Arby’s enjoying a
Beef-N-Cheddar Sandwich and Curly Fries. Arby’s, though they were quicker, didn’t
get everything quite right either. I’d ordered Sierra Mist to drink. When I got
back to the school I realized they’d given me sweet tea. All-in-all, not a very
satisfying lunch experience.
After lunch, I held my first team meeting as team leader. I had
a written agenda and everything. We discussed what we needed to do to prepare
for Open House tomorrow evening, as well as a few of the things we needed to
plan out for the first day of school.
Parents love to receive lists, especially Supply Lists. The four
of us came up with a Supply List for the whole team. Now it is up to me to come
up with a letter introducing parents and students to the team.
Our Open House is tomorrow. Technically, I don’t have to be at
work tomorrow until noon because we are going to be staying from then until
Open House is over at 7 p.m. I will be going in a few hours early as I have a
lot of work to do before Open House. I won’t be staying up late tonight.
Tomorrow is going to be a long day.
As always, I remain,
The Exhausted Educator
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