I have completed the first week of school in my first year as an administrator rather than a classroom teacher. I have lost track of the number of times that I have been asked how it is going. My stock response has become "It's a different kind of busy." I don't have to make lesson plans and I don't have to grade (not entirely true as I am in charge of a handful of students who go over to help at Holy Family, but that doesn't really count). I don't need to make seating charts or worry about remembering the names and faces (difficult with prosopagnosia ) of 100+ high schoolers. Instead, I have a very different set of things to engage my time. Here are a few of my observations: Meetings take up a lot more time than I had expected. On Tuesday, I sent an email at 3:15 that I had started working on at 8:30 because I kept being called into meetings. Monday (the first day of school) had 3 crises to be solved. Only one was major: An outside teacher who han...
Blog started at my students' urging. Many different things will be talked about here.