A Long, Long, Long Week

OK, so let me tell you about my work week.

There was the grading of the performance assessments.

There was getting my lesson plan ready for a pre-observation conference with the assistant principal.

There was the Regents prep work with the two junior classes taking the ELA Regents exam for the first time in January - lots of reading and grading #26's and #27's responses.

There was the Regents prep work with the remedial class of students who have failed the test three and four times - plus the outreach home to a handful of those students who have dropped out of sight already.

There was the college essay work with the two classes of seniors I teach.

There was the concurrent college counseling I do with seniors in those two classes  - meeting each and every student to talk over college lists, majors, financial aid, and ancillary college issues.

There was the student I taught last year who came by today to have that same conversation.

There was the handful of college recommendations requests I have already gotten and a preliminary writing of two of those.

There were copies that needed to be made for the Danielson observation happening next Monday.

There was the pre-observation conference with the assistant principal and the adjustment to the lesson plan that needed to be made to make sure I hit all those Danielson domains

(NOTE TO SELF: Every decision MUST be data-driven; every moment of the class MUST be scripted - you can leave NOTHING to chance in Danielson's world of obsessive compulsive control freakism...)

And there were the five classes a day I teach, plus the coverage I got this afternoon.

Oh - and the five to nine posts a day here at Perdido Street School blog.

This has been a long, long, long week.