Tired

 One tired but happy teacher checking in :) 

Okay lets be real.. I'm honestly just avoiding what I really need to be doing... reworking a presentation. 

What presentation you ask.. Oh one that I signed up to give about a year and a half ago... then COVID happened.. I thought I knew what I signed up to talk about..something told me to check the description in the conference book.. yeah good thing.. here I sit reworking a presentation.. No stress right?? Umm.. I need to have presentation sent in to conference people by August 23.. yeah no pressure.. 

Also need to do the training for the ESL Screener for Kindergarten (have had access for about 2 weeks details) I've been told that takes up to 3 hours to do.. Then get to screen a few kiddos... 

Get to do a training for work on sex trafficking (thank you state legislature) yeah that's a three hour training. 

 

Have several student observations to do. (yep 4 days into school though one is for an evaluation) 

Tomorrow night is Back to School Night.. fun times! :) :) Love seeing my families! 

 

Need to attend a friends father's viewing or funeral either Friday night or Saturday 3 hours away... 

 

Laundry - is laughing at me right now :) 

 

Well back to my presentation - it won't write itself

Explanation

 As I sit here wrapping up a few things tonight I realize that I need an explanation of a few things... 

Why do I have to beg and plead for class lists to not get them and have to wait for them to be officially published on the school website.. 

How is it that I don't have access to a new family's contact info in the data base as an administrator but yet the school nurses can get it.. 

While I get my gen ed counterparts have a TON on their plates.. but why do I have to wait up until the first day of school to get a copy of their schedule because that is when it has to be posted in the Google Folder? Oh and mind you not all make that deadline when they have had since May to get it in. 

Why can't those on staff remember what grades I and the other academic support teacher have? We haven't changed in 4 years... 

Dear staff- just because I don't tell you about a new student with a 504 plan doesn't mean that I don't know about it. 

I'm sure there will be more.. 

Start of the year

 Here in a week I start the beginning if year 20 of teaching. 

One of  these years I will remember that the stress at the start of the year is always insane and it always starts before school starts. I always say I have to forget the beginning of the year to make it possible to do it again each year..  ce 

This year picks up with where we left off it seems like... still in the midst of a pandemic. At the end of the school year we had great hope that this year would be better Time be told, it is worse than when we left in May. CDC has recommended that masks go back into place yet Indiana hasn't made the call to make masks mandatory again. It is going to be a long year with the pandemic.. 

It seems like this summer I couldn't really not stop checking in on work. Between potential new students, current parent complaint, WIDA testing information.. it just never seemed to stop.

This summer also had its tragedy. One of the incoming 2nd graders was killed in a car crash. Very sad. Other family members in the car survived, he did not. So so very sad..

Time to take a deep breath, buckle up and get ready to ride the horse again.. it's going to be a wild one.