All gone

Snow is but a memory, been in the 70s for the past couple of days. School is lumbering toward Spring break, but the week is a chaotic scramble. Daylight Savings screwed up everybody's internal clock, and our school is hosting the West Tennessee Band competition. Which means no bells to signal class changes, no all-call announcements, no using the hall leading to or passing in front of the auditorium - ALL WEEK.

Plus we have to issue progress reports when all we have been doing is teaching to the test (TCAP as mentioned before), create an intervention lesson plan for State Performance Indicators that kids didn't do well on, based on earlier flawed assessments (more teaching to the test), keep the kids from damaging each other in the pre-break excitability, etc.

I registered for the Praxis to make me highly qualified to teach any subject through 8th grade. A hitch in licensing left me with a K-8 license, but only highly qualified to teach 1-6. This will fix that and allow my administration some flexibility to move me rather than surplus me. Best case scenario would be getting 4 periods of Algebra 1 and a computer class (which was waved in front of me 2 years ago, but I didn't have the test, and the principal didn't have the confidence to wait for me to take it). That might require me to take yet another Praxis to show I know Algebra 1 - - we will see.