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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand why we can't end school an 30 minutes early every day to fit in that planning time.[/quote]

This is the best idea. There's no reason that predictable and unencumbered planning time should be so difficult to achieve. Elementary days are already really long and 30 mins a day isn't a big deal. [/quote]

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Yes! Great idea! [/quote]

You really think ending the ES day 30 minutes early every day -- or 2 1/2 hours of planning time a week -- won't be filled with more meetings? [/quote]

Not if you don't schedule them. I'm sorry, but I'm in a meeting heavy environment and I block off 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon of focus time to work on deliverables because otherwise, I'm in constant meetings with people constantly bothering me and asking me questions. If I don't block off the time and tell people not to bother me, then I won't get things done. This is what you need to do. Like you tell your students, learn how to manage your time better.[/quote]

You have the authority to do that. Teachers don’t.

We are told when to show up for parking lot duty. We are told when to do cafeteria duty. We are told when to do team meetings. Our schedules are given to us. There’s no “blocking out time” available to a teacher. We are either directly responsible for 28-30 students, in a meeting about those students, or assigned a duty to support the operations of the school.

We get our work done outside of school hours, which is the only unscheduled time we have.

If it helps: imagine if someone dictated 7 hours of your work day and you had to rely on the remaining 1 hour to get all of your work done. And that 1 hour is all you get to prep for the next 6 hours of presentations and to read the 70-100 pages those presentations produce. [/quote]

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