Another week down

A trying time, but made it through. My sub on Wednesday appeared to not have read the notes I left her, so most of my students did not re-take a quiz or start to work on a project. Kids tell me she sat at the desk most of the time. I sit at that desk only when students are not in the room. Go figure.

Which means shuffling everything that might have happened on plan. Then today one of my students, stretching his legs, broke one of the two working computer jacks in the room. This will make it impossible to achieve a 90 minute goal for 12 students a week to use an application, with a single computer.

Adding to the stress, I have another bulletin board to "decorate", a "drop-in" on Monday morning to see how I am addressing missed questions on the formative assessment, and got pulled into the Principal's office, along with another of my team, to be informed that some of our ring-leader students are sharing with other their strategies for button pushing and classroom disruption, and are now experimenting in other classes. So, we should be less predictable in the coming weeks. Never mind that we are also supposed to have a routine and stick to it to minimize disruptions.

On the brighter side, next year the school will have an optional program, which the Principal says will probably be one team with all Honors classes. On the darker side, the district is going to mandate block scheduling, which was a nightmare last year. You surely can't win them all.