Tomorrow is our first mandatory day back. Starting at 7am for breakfast – I’m sure it will be refrigerator bagels and Folgers coffee. Sadly, even if there were someone in the region who knew how to make an actual bagel, it would be rejected in favor of those lounging in a plastic bag on a grocery shelf with a sell-by date. Despite the cornucopia of fresh foods available, this area is where foodies go to loose a few pounds. But I digress.
I somehow found myself volunteering to help present information about RTI to the district. I’m sure my thinking was something along the lines of… I won’t have to listen to endless presentations about things I already know about. Now, however, I’m thinking, Crap! I’ve given up hours of planning and prep I could be doing while pretending to pay attention.
Why do these welcome back days have to be so boring? Besides the obvious fact that while teachers are continually lambasted for lecturing to students for more than 15 minutes, teachers will be lectured TO for hours on end. I’m hoping that our presentation won’t be as boring, but it is mostly lecture. We have 40 minutes to get out the basics of RTI to the staff members so at least it will go quick. Of course, now I’m wishing we could have found some funny cartoons to toss in… I hope my presentation partner was able to find the SNL skit on a site we could access through our draconian net filter. Some humor is desperately needed.
Meanwhile the usual contract negotiations flounder along. We had a meeting today and will be having another one within a few days. Is it good? Is it bad? Honestly, who the heck knows? Everyone gets all excited and then all of sudden it’s over and never discussed again. I’m hoping it will go that way again.
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