Sunday, September 1, 2013
"Inservice..."
Anyone else feel a huge sense of disappointment on your return to in service? We didn't even so much as share any updates or talk summer as a whole group. Sure you share in the hallways with a few closer co-workers here and there but coming back after this summer was an especially big let down for me. Maybe it's because I have a true community at SMU and have done so much planning in perfect classroom to incorporate what we are doing and learning into my room... But seriously who plans a schedule that includes everyone listening to blood borne pathogens in a dark room with the lights off first thing on day 1? And 7th grade orientation until 9:00 pm on day 1? Because I can, I'm sharing my new 5C motto with you... Calm. Cool. Collected. Community. Content. I don't want my students to feel as deflated as I did on day 1. True I might have to reign in my expectations... But admin... You gotta step it up!
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Common Core and Rigor were our hot topics on day 1. No energizers. No small groups. No community feeling.
ReplyDeleteDay 2 was much better with 5-6 presentations from our students highlighting their accomplishments. This is the second or third year that we have gathered as a District Staff to celebrate our kids!
We also spent our first day (79 degrees and humid) in the auditorium where blood borne was discusses and celebrated. We did have a couple of moments of community but they were short lived. By 11 AM, the administrators had run out of things for us to do, so they sent us on our way. The majority of us just went back to our rooms (had to drive from Two Harbors to Silver Bay first) to sweat it out in isolation. It could have been so much more.
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