How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If was 4 day a week and you could plan from home that would be great.

How would you plan from home when you need the photocopy machine?

DP- we got a small business printer. Or if I’m annoyed at using toner, I load up everything that needs to be printed in separate windows and then print immediately when I get to school in the morning.

If you use VPN and hold/lock print on the copiers you can send all your print jobs from home and just have them printed out the next day (unless your school set the timeout very short but your tech folks can adjust that).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my coworkers decided to leave right after they announced the COLA and step increase this year. She said the adjustment was ridiculously low given inflation and all the years without any increases before that.

I'm a new teacher married to a high earner so I don't feel it, but it seems like the gap between public sector and private sector wages is in fact increasing at a rapid clip. I have no idea how I would make ends meet in this area on my salary alone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/01/public-sector-wages-inflation/

Not everyone has the type of job your husband has - most of us in the private sector are getting 1-2% raises just like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If was 4 day a week and you could plan from home that would be great.

How would you plan from home when you need the photocopy machine?

DP- we got a small business printer. Or if I’m annoyed at using toner, I load up everything that needs to be printed in separate windows and then print immediately when I get to school in the morning.

If you use VPN and hold/lock print on the copiers you can send all your print jobs from home and just have them printed out the next day (unless your school set the timeout very short but your tech folks can adjust that).

Lol. My school doesn't have tech folks. We can barely get anyone to come to our school to service our printers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If was 4 day a week and you could plan from home that would be great.

How would you plan from home when you need the photocopy machine?

DP- we got a small business printer. Or if I’m annoyed at using toner, I load up everything that needs to be printed in separate windows and then print immediately when I get to school in the morning.

If you use VPN and hold/lock print on the copiers you can send all your print jobs from home and just have them printed out the next day (unless your school set the timeout very short but your tech folks can adjust that).

Lol. My school doesn't have tech folks. We can barely get anyone to come to our school to service our printers.

No SBTS or TSPEC? How many students are at your school?

[Anonymous]

I dont understand why they are approving hiring for things like one year only SEL resource teachers. Things like that are a “nice to have.” Pulling teachers from the classroom into these curriculum development positions when there are SO many vacancies doesn’t seem like a smart move. They could hire a bunch of teachers to do summer curriculum development and keep teachers in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Those currently holding instructional coach positions should make excellent classroom teachers, right? After all, they coach others in instructional practices. Why not move them back into the classroom? Other classroom teachers could then observe the former coach's class if they'd like.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see the link, but there are some listings for hybrid teachers? Assuming they would teach the kids who are paused?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry don’t know where my comment went above.

They get away with it by saying half of the CLT meetings are planning…. It never happens.

They always run over lambasting us about scores or “training” us in 15 year old “best practices.”

Or, you literally training the coach in what your grade level should be doing.

THey need to go and many teachers would be much much happier. The job may be manageable then.

Totally agree with this. I quit teaching a few years before COVID for all the usual reasons, the admin being a major one, the lack of planning another, the testing, etc.....I often felt like if I made a positive difference for a child, it was in spite of the administration and the county.

[Anonymous]

Coaches would be way better at their jobs if they taught or co-taught a class or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Coaches would be way better at their jobs if they taught or co-taught a class or two.

This is what I thought part of the job was when it was introduced to us a few years ago, but for the last 2 years they just sit in meeting and make us review data that we’ve probably already discussed as a team.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Coaches would be way better at their jobs if they taught or co-taught a class or two.

This is what I thought part of the job was when it was introduced to us a few years ago, but for the last 2 years they just sit in meeting and make us review data that we’ve probably already discussed as a team.

How about “unpacking” standards? We did that years ago when all we really had was a list of standards. With the current Pacing Guides they are about as unpacked as they are going to get.

I’d still like to know what determines if a school has a coach. Is it discretionary spending by the principal?

[Anonymous]

Another thing that has to go is the ridiculous grading policies, including the 50% instead of zeros and flexible deadlines on major assignments.

The only thing the 50% did this year was convince my students who were getting 10% on assessments that they were really close to passing because they had a 55% average based on total failure on assessments and their homework completion grade. They would have been better off switching to an easier class to rebuild missing foundations but wouldn't hear of it. And so they failed the class.

The flexible deadlines are horrible for students who have little self-discipline because they just encourage them to procrastinate and have work pile up, and they do even worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Coaches would be way better at their jobs if they taught or co-taught a class or two.

This is what I thought part of the job was when it was introduced to us a few years ago, but for the last 2 years they just sit in meeting and make us review data that we’ve probably already discussed as a team.

How about “unpacking” standards? We did that years ago when all we really had was a list of standards. With the current Pacing Guides they are about as unpacked as they are going to get.

I’d still like to know what determines if a school has a coach. Is it discretionary spending by the principal?

Our IC always says that her position needs to be approved each year. I think it is up to the principal and funding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If was 4 day a week and you could plan from home that would be great.

How would you plan from home when you need the photocopy machine?

DP- we got a small business printer. Or if I’m annoyed at using toner, I load up everything that needs to be printed in separate windows and then print immediately when I get to school in the morning.

If you use VPN and hold/lock print on the copiers you can send all your print jobs from home and just have them printed out the next day (unless your school set the timeout very short but your tech folks can adjust that).

Lol. My school doesn't have tech folks. We can barely get anyone to come to our school to service our printers.

No SBTS or TSPEC? How many students are at your school?

They’re either not FCPS, not in a traditional school or exaggerating. Every school has at least a part-time person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Coaches would be way better at their jobs if they taught or co-taught a class or two.

Almost all the coaches I know specifically took the job to get out of the classroom and to get a foot in the Admin door. They don’t care about being better at their jobs, just doing it only as long as necessary to get an AP or Willow Oaks job.