A different kind of productive- day 3

WELL today was about being good to myself and being okay with non-closure.

 I feel stuck, playing the waiting game.

I feel like as educators we have been called to hurry up and wait.  We have been rushed into figuring out how to turn our classes into engaging online learning experiences, but we aren't being provided the information needed to do that. 

Waiting for schedules- when everything has to be bargained and negotiated, we wait.  We don't really have time to wait, but we wait all the same.

Waiting for data.

Waiting for the meeting to just be over so I can do that work I really need to do. 

We wait for normalcy-  This is going to be a long wait.  Maybe a very long wait.  I am grieving my classroom. Grieving not seeing my students. Grieving my old normal, my old routine.

I had meetings today:
The first one felt good. We are putting grades on hold.  This feels good as we use this week to adjust to our new routine.  I will not grade the first week. (outside of the 1 assignment that is a continuation from the start of the year, every two week- good to have something consistent).  My students have extra credit options that will show me what they've retained this year-so far so good.

2nd: Alg 2 part 1 meeting made me feel like I'm not alone.  To know that co-teachers don't have to be everything to all people all the time. Just keep being there for my kids.  Good to know I'm not in this alone. Good to know math isn't trying to tackle everything.

3rd Meeting: Got the tail end of the para team meeting- I am super impressed with how my school is handling this.  We a leaps and bounds ahead of many schools in how we are using them. I am so thankful to my admin support staff for taking some weight off of teachers in this.

4th meeting: We will meet again to figure out more because it's hard to make a plan without a schedule.


Accountability: I am setting reminders to take breaks, to get up and move, to take a break and actually enjoy my lunch rather than work through it.

Please enjoy the daily Kindness challenge care of @characterstrong

Signing off
-C

Day 3: 10 min. Challenge 3 friends to send you a picture of what they believe will most make you saw "AWWW"

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