Week 7

It felt weird to write the title- Week 7.  It's been over 50 days since I've had students in a classroom.  It's been 50 days since I've been in my classroom. That's insane.  All of this has certainly changed me as an educator and as a person.

Progress on Clock hours:--And what else I'm doing
PGP session 3- 2 hours
Grades 09-12 SEL- 2 hours
Actual PGP being done- 25 hours
When I picked my personal growth plan in the fall I had no idea how on point my topic would be.  My plan - To increase para professional use and competence with technology. Well we are certainly doing a lot more than I planned on us getting to this year. They have had to step up and grow and learn in ways no one planned for. But they did it.  All of them. Every para educator on our staff has grown in their use of and competence with technology. And it's awesome because next year they will come back with those skills and be more effective.
Total Clock hours this week: 29
Clock hours done previous to this week: 6 hours
Total so far: 35 hours

Where are the other 65 coming from?:

My 43 eLearning credits are going OKAY- My original goal was an hour a day- that was too big, so now the goal is 3 hours on it a week.  I was able to finish 3 of the 20-some modules I have to do last week but nothing this week I may have bitten off more than I can chew- I honestly have no idea where this week went.

Next week I signed up for WA state standard and special education, so that will be another 6 hours.- Classes I sit in and engage occasionally are way easier than self-driven online learning...there's a lesson in there for us right now....

I will probably do one WEA trainging a week they will average out to about 3 hours a week so maybe if I'm on it 24 hours this year from WEA.

Further down the road I am looking at attending the AP institute in the spring thanks to some reaching out from the amazing team I work with to include me and a supportive administration. That will be 25 clock hours if we can make that work.

At first when I set the goal of 100 hours before the start of school next fall, it felt crazy.  Given that I completely lost all sense of time this week it still may be crazy. But it's something I have control over and that's important to me.

Anything else?

I wrote a whole essay almost on other things that are going on, but I got pulled down a hole of negativity and things I cannot control so I deleted it. So I leave you with this.  Do something that brings you some joy each day.  I have found listening to musicals online or streaming orchestra hall concerts from the past.  Tonight's joy is Sondheim  I encourage you if you are a musical fan or even if you aren't to take a listen.

Signing off for now

-C