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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] [b]At my current school, there are too many admin, and each of them is scurrying to show that their post is relevant.[/b] In my school, high school teachers share a common calendar and work together to ensure that students don't have major assessments on the same day or near the same day when possible. None of the members of our bloated admin staff have the same consideration for teachers as they all rush to create new "initiatives" and processes and meetings.[/quote]

This right here. My small Title I ES has 2 admin and 4 nebulous facilitators who do not work with students and are instead supposed to be supporting teachers in improving their practice. What it really means is [b]those 6 people spend an awful lot of time making tasks for us to do in meeting after meeting without ever working with students or in a classroom so they can see just how desperately our kids need more effective help.[/b] Their suggestions are great in theory but not in practice and most of them do not have proven experience improving a school like ours. My “planning time” is spent doing tasks they make them look and feel good without actually helping accelerate the growth of my students who are YEARS below grade level.[/quote]

+1000

And these are the people who are in charge of "assessing" teachers.

20 years ago, I had so much more time to actually read and produce meaningful feedback on my high school English students' writing.  All that planning time has been jerked away from me, to the point that it now takes me weeks to get papers back, and my feedback is often rushed and not as useful.  Admin don't care!  They are happy that I am attending so many meetings, and that I am doing so many stupid tasks that have nothing to do with actually teaching or planning or grading, because they don't understand what teaching actually entails.

I am the one who mentioned the stupid Monday morning before-school meeting about "team building" for teachers.  Let me tell you what this meeting entails. Last Monday, I arrived early before school and hurried to the designated meeting room.  First we stood around a big table heaped with Christmas cookies and grapes for ten minutes; everyone was to tired and annoyed to actually eat anything.  Some of us chatted about all the things we had to do that we wished we were allowed to actually do instead of this.  Then, we were put into pairs and given some strips of paper to draw and read at our partner.  Mine directed me to ask my partner, a teacher I work with every day, what her favorite song is and why.  Then she asked me what color I would be if I were a color, and why.  Then a pointless, cheery pep talk from an admin about how we are all rockstars and he knows it will be a busy week but we can do it!  Then we all rushed, stressed and thinking about the long week ahead, to our classrooms for homeroom.

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