3rd Grade Summer Bridge

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here at a JKLM. We have absolutely no idea what the program is. We have been told schools will have to provide all materials worth their own budget. The classes are capped at 8 kids to allow for sped teachers to come in to provide services. At my school, every third grade teacher has refused to teach this program. The rumor we have heard is am they are having an extremely hard time staffing this throughout Ward 3. I’m not sure about other wards.

Thank you, jklm teacher. Do teachers get a bonus for teaching this bridge program?

It’s admin pay, so yes it’s extra. But if you have been teaching over 10 years it’s actually less than your hourly rate.

I can add a couple more details. It’s from 9-1 M-Th for two weeks with lunch included in that time. It’s two hours academic and two hours SEL. But with social distancing and classes capped at 8, it’s unclear how much team building there really will be. Student will stay with the same teacher for the two weeks.

Huh that's so true. I am a newer teacher and admin has asked me to teach summer bridge, I am still undecided...because well it's not really about the money.

Admin pay is actually more like $80+ an hour hahaha. Silly DCPS

Admin premium is about $45 per my pay stub.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're scheduled to teach 3rd grade next year and you don't want to do bridge, can the principal switch you to a different grade and have the teachers who want to do summer bridge teach 3rd?

Probably not. At my school it’s the music and PE teachers willing to do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here at a JKLM. We have absolutely no idea what the program is. We have been told schools will have to provide all materials worth their own budget. The classes are capped at 8 kids to allow for sped teachers to come in to provide services. At my school, every third grade teacher has refused to teach this program. The rumor we have heard is am they are having an extremely hard time staffing this throughout Ward 3. I’m not sure about other wards.

Thank you, jklm teacher. Do teachers get a bonus for teaching this bridge program?

It’s admin pay, so yes it’s extra. But if you have been teaching over 10 years it’s actually less than your hourly rate.

I can add a couple more details. It’s from 9-1 M-Th for two weeks with lunch included in that time. It’s two hours academic and two hours SEL. But with social distancing and classes capped at 8, it’s unclear how much team building there really will be. Student will stay with the same teacher for the two weeks.

Huh that's so true. I am a newer teacher and admin has asked me to teach summer bridge, I am still undecided...because well it's not really about the money.

Admin pay is actually more like $80+ an hour hahaha. Silly DCPS

Admin premium is about $45 per my pay stub.

Mistake? It's $40, has been for many years now.

[Anonymous]

I am curious how they are capping it - the message that went out was that this was an option for every 3rd, 6th and 9th grade student.

[Anonymous]

I would do this but at my Ward 3 school but 2nd and 3rd grade teachers have already volunteered and I think they will get offered it first.

I am not seeing any resistance in my school by teachers to a hybrid learning model or summer bridge. We are all tired following distance learning, yes, but everyone seems very flexible with the uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am curious how they are capping it - the message that went out was that this was an option for every 3rd, 6th and 9th grade student.

Each class can only have 8 kids. I’m not sure what they are going to do if more kids signup than teachers willing to teach it.

[Anonymous]

This is a prime example of DCPS announcing a program without asking any teachers if there was an interest. How can you staff something no one wants to do? I don’t even understand how this will work in 9th grade. If you stay with the same teacher and they are a Spanish teacher what academics are they teaching? Maybe they are terrible at math, how can they teach that?

[Anonymous]

We signed up for it, but of course will rethink that if things look like they are taking a downward turn by August. I think that third graders are old enough to manage basic precautions, and the small class sizes mean they can do distancing. My main motivation is that I it will be easier to restart school with some kind of "formal," in-person marker. And I'm really hoping that my kid ends up getting to spend some time with one of her actual teachers before things end up being online. Plus, she will be really happy to see her friends. She's been great about this whole thing, and she's a sweet kid, but I know that she'd like to see people in person, too.

[Anonymous]

I am a 1st grade sped teacher & signed up to do summer bridge. Yes- the $45 an hour is less than my regular salary. However, it’ll still clear an extra $1000 for 8 days of work.
There is no curriculum because it just doesn’t matter. They are using it to test health protocols.
I’m planning on leading a daily yoga class (I am certified) and maybe a meditation practice? I’ll let the content teachers handle the academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a 1st grade sped teacher & signed up to do summer bridge. Yes- the $45 an hour is less than my regular salary. However, it’ll still clear an extra $1000 for 8 days of work.
There is no curriculum because it just doesn’t matter. They are using it to test health protocols.
I’m planning on leading a daily yoga class (I am certified) and maybe a meditation practice? I’ll let the content teachers handle the academics.

We were told that it's 4 hours total instruction per day, 2 hours of which is academics, and that one teacher would be teaching the same kids all day. So I think you are the academics for those 8 days. Unless you mean just let the regular classroom teacher they have starting August 31 handle it?

[Anonymous]

4 hours a day. 2 hour of academics- with no curriculum or budget. Then 2 hours of SEL. Once again no curriculum or budget. I am the sped teacher so I’ll be floating in between the rooms. 8 kids, plus 1 teacher, plus 1 me = ten.

I’ll do yoga & meditation in the two hours.

[Anonymous]

Nope. It said mandatory in person and we will be away the first week. Funny that we all survived DL this spring but can’t do it for this two-week period. If we could, we would do it from the beach. But not cancelling a trip for this.

[Anonymous]

Why third grade? I can see for sixth and ninth as those students are changing schools but why third?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why third grade? I can see for sixth and ninth as those students are changing schools but why third?

In a lot of schools, kids start rotating teachers in third. One for math, one for ELA. Maybe one for science. Etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why third grade? I can see for sixth and ninth as those students are changing schools but why third?

In a lot of schools, kids start rotating teachers in third. One for math, one for ELA. Maybe one for science. Etc.

Very true, but I’m not convinced they are going to be rotating teachers this year.