Aligning curriuculum, Marzano strategies, intervention groups, struggling students, naysayers.............whew! I feel like I'm a salmon swimming upstream trying to find my way home. When I get there, every one of my students will be reading on grade level, have an intrinsic desire to learn, and the parents and teachers will smile everyday. No frowning allowed.
Everyday, I dodge that grizzly bear trying to eat me alive as I jump upstream. You know, the bear that waits at the waterfall snatching the salmon as they jump upriver. The bear is the teacher that refuses to acknowledge that they need to improve the quality of relationships with students, parents and colleagues. It is the naysayer that doesn't want to implement a new way of doing things. The bear is the parent that doesn't agree with the detention you assigned to the boy that scratched profane words on his desk. Will I avoid the bear and make it home?
For now, we are trying to focus on improving reading scores. We have implemented intervention groups and are trying to find that intervention that will magically fix all of those students that have a hard time comprehending what they have just read. Until I make that jump upstream, and dodge the bear I guess I'll just keep researching, keep trying, and keep inspiring!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Time for My Hats
Picture this:
A clown juggling 6 balls, a chimpanzee going 'ape' in his cage at the zoo, the Kracken on Pirates of the Caribbean.
On any given day I feel like these characters. I feel like I need as many arms as the Kracken. I feel like I need limbs and a tail like the wild chimp flying through the rope course at the zoo. And, I usually feel like a clown, sometimes a clown that juggles. This is my life as an Elementary principal.
Please know: this post is not me complaining about my job. When I agreed to the position, I knew exactly what I was getting into and I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that I was insane. So why not take the job?
The purpose of this post is I NEED HELP! I need help juggling all of my hats. My days are crazy as yours are too, I'm sure. Yesterday I had 25 evaluations that I had to complete, meet with staff and get over to CO. I had a student have his daily ED freak out (who needs an exercise regime when you have an ED room in your building?) I had parent phone calls, parent visits, staff complaints, and this was all before lunch.
My doctor doesn't recommend drinking. It goes against my moral code (yes, I do have one) to take drugs. My husband would prefer that I not work 20 hours per day. I have come to the conclusion that I need one of those gizmos that Hermione had in Harry Potter 3 - you know, the one that allows her to be in 12 places at one time. Has this been patented yet?
Can anyone help? Until I find the answer I suppose I'll continue to get up everyday and just do the best I can. I will remind myself to prioritize and save my paperwork for after hours. I will hope that it is true that as you get older you need less sleep...............
Until next time!
A clown juggling 6 balls, a chimpanzee going 'ape' in his cage at the zoo, the Kracken on Pirates of the Caribbean.
On any given day I feel like these characters. I feel like I need as many arms as the Kracken. I feel like I need limbs and a tail like the wild chimp flying through the rope course at the zoo. And, I usually feel like a clown, sometimes a clown that juggles. This is my life as an Elementary principal.
Please know: this post is not me complaining about my job. When I agreed to the position, I knew exactly what I was getting into and I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that I was insane. So why not take the job?
The purpose of this post is I NEED HELP! I need help juggling all of my hats. My days are crazy as yours are too, I'm sure. Yesterday I had 25 evaluations that I had to complete, meet with staff and get over to CO. I had a student have his daily ED freak out (who needs an exercise regime when you have an ED room in your building?) I had parent phone calls, parent visits, staff complaints, and this was all before lunch.
My doctor doesn't recommend drinking. It goes against my moral code (yes, I do have one) to take drugs. My husband would prefer that I not work 20 hours per day. I have come to the conclusion that I need one of those gizmos that Hermione had in Harry Potter 3 - you know, the one that allows her to be in 12 places at one time. Has this been patented yet?
Can anyone help? Until I find the answer I suppose I'll continue to get up everyday and just do the best I can. I will remind myself to prioritize and save my paperwork for after hours. I will hope that it is true that as you get older you need less sleep...............
Until next time!
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