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one of my favorite bloggers is kelly over at mocha momma this morning i read her post entitled trying it on this passage jumped out at me and hit me right between the eyeballs this summer is about trying things on and pushing past the discomfort it s about telling myself i belong here and getting out of my own way to end the cycle of sabotage i can t even find the words to explain why that resonated with me all i know is that i felt it in every fiber of my being which affirmed that i am on the right track during this summer of 2012 leave a comment from 2009 10 survival may 29 2012 finals for seniors are finished my grades are entered i m almost afraid to say it i actually survived this school year holy cannoli i need to go lie down 3 comments from 2009 10 setting priorities november 17 2011 in times of high stress it is easy to become overwhelmed when you clearly see the work before you it can feel more like an abyss but instead of focusing on what can t be done cultivate a keen awareness about all that can be done right now it is no secret to anyone who follows my fb and or twitter feeds that i am not having a good year rest easy friends i ve been very careful with what i ve posted so as not to end up fired but i feel i owe it to myself to be honest about what i m going through this school year and besides once upon a time we were given this thing called the bill of rights and part of that package is the handy dandy freedom of speech boo yah baby thanks to the trainwreck that is the 4 3 block schedule where you teach 4 90 minute classes one day with no break and 3 the next with one period off combined with the great state of texas ever increasing curricular and administrative demands and the fact that i don t have my room during my one planning period thanks be to the dynamic that is school overcrowding i am crissssspy granted the state of texas only requires that teachers get 450 minutes over a ten day period so that planning period we lost was actually above and beyond what our district was required to give us so yes i realize that i have had it reallllly good over the past nine years where planning time is concerned and yes i also realize that there were a lot of teachers who did not use their planning time as wisely as they could however some of us did some of us used that time to get grading and planning done so that we could be totally engaged with our students during the limited time we had them in class granted there were days when i used that planning time to chat with colleagues and or make a sonic run but that was necessary to recharge the batteries so that i could be fully one hunnert percent present with my students it blindsided me this year to realize how drastically losing that planning period impacted my life on a days where i teach 4 90 minute classes of senior english in a row with only a 30 minute lunch i am worthless when the dismissal bell rings at 2 45 i have to force myself to stay in my room til my contract time ends at 3 00 the urge to charge the parking lot is almost unbearable on b days i teach 3 90 minute classes in a row with a 30 minute lunch and when the bell rings to end 7th period i have to pack up my belongings to clear the way for the teacher who uses my room during 8th period needless to say my desire to be productive pales in comparison to how freakin mentally exhausted i am at that point i wish i could say that i ve been superwoman and have managed to triumph over my obstacles and maintain my usual high standard of brilliance but that would be a lie i have had to make peace with my non super woman ness and realize that i can t do it all gasp i ve had to learn how to set priorities and say no without feeling guilty because i had to set some boundaries or i wasn t going to be any good to anyone to be continued from http edge ascd org _7 tips for overcoming teacher burn out blog 5477206 127586 html 3 comments from 2009 10 the verdict october 20 2011 my dr called me today with the results from my blood test i ve got mono yippee freakin skippy i had mono my freshman year in college and it s lain dormant since then just waiting for the perfect conditions to flare back up enter the shittastic schedule of the 2011 12 school year 2 comments from 2009 10 ti red october 17 2011 this school year is kickin my arse in a big and major way thanks to budget cuts we lost a conference period and gained an extra class section so now i m up to 210 students in 7 90 minute classes with only 90 minutes of planning over the course of 2 days this sucks since school started i ve been ridiculously exhausted to the point where all i want to do in the evenings and on the weekends is sleep at first i just thought it was adjusting to going back to school then i thought it was pms but it s carried on far too long so tonight i talked to my dr and she wanted me to come get blood drawn so she can check my thyroid and my epstein barr levels it felt good to have her respond to my saying i m exhausted with authentic concern and a plan for action stay tuned hasta 4 comments from 2009 10 current state of mind october 4 2011 teaching is the perfect job for me i love the part where i figure out what and how i m going to teach and i love the part where i actually execute that plan with the kids while getting to know them as people and i love the part where i get to put numbers into little boxes and figure out how well they re doing what i don t love is the mind numbing exhaustion of this 4 3 schedule or the constant stress about how i m going to get all the paperwork done with so little planning time i don t want to leave education but i don t know how much longer i can keep up this pace and dear god help me it s only october 2 comments from 2009 10 fresh start january 18 2011 the spring semester starts tomorrow today is our teacher workday as you might remember our leaders in their infinite wisdom decided to load us up with new stuff this past semester new english curriculum new english textbooks new online gradebook system new student information management system new teacher appraisal system new a c chillers new tile carpet new kids all in all things went pretty smoothly of course there were hiccups along the way the new ancillary materials were not delivered til the 2nd week of school the newly adopted novels were not delivered in time to teach them in the 3rd week of school the new curriculum is to put it mildly optimistic in terms of what we re supposed to accomplish in a given grading period not everything had been loaded accurately key word into the new student info system my appraiser didn t still doesn t for that matter have a clue what the new appraisal system is about so she ran around doing gotcha walkthroughs i got in trouble for doing sat prep during the 5th week of school according to my appraiser i shouldn t have been doing stuff that wasn t on the curriculum document the fact i didn t have the novels i was supposed to teach see 2 is immaterial my appraiser s decision that the english teachers rooms are too cluttered so we have to clean to her standards my appraiser s failure to realize that the main reason the rooms seem so cluttered is we have thirty students crammed into classrooms designed according to 1964 standards my appraiser s standards include not being able to see boxes brown cardboard boxes are ugly my appraiser failed to realize that those ugly boxes contain the 80 gajillion novels that we received as part of the new textbook adoption and there s not enough shelf space in the world to accommodate all of those books and since she gave away our bookroom several years ago where the hell else are we supposed to store em if not in their handy dandy ugly cardboard boxes is it any wonder why i m excited about the opportunity to make a fresh start here are my goals objectives crap i gotta get better at for this semester cover the curriculum document use my professional judgment to prioritize eliminate portions of the curriculum document make the kids responsible for reading outside of class concentrate on vocabulary make a word wall post my learning objectives daily work on writing get past basic plot summaries so we can do more analysis create new seating charts for each class to minimize the pockets of talking pissy attitudes have my syllabus planned available at the beginning of the six weeks stay tuned i ll let you know how it goes _________________________________ rationale to keep my appraiser off my a and my a out of her office so the li l darlins have a fighting chance in freshman comp to preserve what s left of my sanity 5 comments from 2010 11 protected the changing of the guard january 9 2011 this content is password protected to view it please enter the password below password enter your password to view comments from 2010 11 protected empty desk syndrome december 14 2010 this content is password protected to view it please enter the password below password enter your password to view comments from 2010 11 senior theme december 5 2010 if i thought i hated senior theme the senior research paper before it was nothing compared to how much i absolutely loathe it this year how much is that you ask with every fiber of my being let me attempt to explain why the curriculum committee changed the topics to controversial people from medieval times the committee also provided a list of people who were considered controversial the committee said the new topics were required big booming voice across the district because i m trying to stay off the radar i used the new topics i m the only one from uberschool who used the new topics the paper is supposed to be 1000 1200 words which would be fine if there was a ton of information available however because the topics are new our library doesn t have very many print resources about them because these people are extra dead most of the info in the electronic databases is limited and redundant the kids are having a hard time discerning what it was that made these people controversial apparently this generation doesn t see much controversy in someone who chose to leave a career as a lawyer to become a painter neither does their teacher once they we finally scrape the bottom enough to figure out what made these people controversial they have a hard time understanding that they re gonna need to expand their search parameters if they re going to get enough info it is nigh unto impossible to teach the concept of historical context to teenagers in a 2 minute conversation explaining that 4 sources is not the same as having enough information is like nailing jello to the wall added to this mix is the standard b s that comes with teaching high school students their inclination toward procrastination their belief that ms h was jus playin about the deadlines their belief that ms h was jus playin about not taking makeup and or late work their inability to sit down and shut the hell up for more than 2 minutes in a row their habit of rolling their eyes and or sucking their teeth when i tell them to get to work their disbelief that i would actually hold them to the printed calendar when it comes to due dates but i was absent that means i get 2 extra days their inability to see they need to be in class and not at insert name of random campus activity their frustration that i don t drop everything to get them caught up when they finally roll into class after being absent for 3 or more class periods their assistant principal s habit of calling for 3 or 4 kids at the same time to bitch em out about attendance and or tardies their assistant principal s habit of crawling up my ass for not sending all 4 at once having classes that are packed out with 30 students and being in a computer lab with if i m lucky 28 working computers having these fools ignore me while i m trying to tell them something on the front end and then being forced to repeat myself eighty damn gajillion freaking times having a cheerleader and a varsity girls b ball player lose their damn minds when they tell me it s mutual because i ve told them attitudes need to come down a couple of notches trust me if i could i would pull the plug on this project and tell them they all get an a just so i don t have to spend next weekend grading the damn things unfortunately this runs contrary to my desire to stay off the radar sigh i m just surprised i ve managed to stay outta jail 6 comments from 2010 11 older entries who am i i m a 30 something texas teacher who loves her family her friends her life her job her hobbies and her wiener dog sometimes i get a little crazy and the language gets a little salty but please don t blame my mama she tried her best ear hustlin leesepea on survival tara r on survival miss teacha on survival kim on setting priorities don t get it twisted civilians don mills diva i forgot where if mom says ok naked on the roof one plus two please stop bouncing the single geekhiker the pig s tales trixie s trailer 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