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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why people keep talking about the effect of COVID.  This thread is about why teachers are resigning.

I'm an elementary school teacher. I know three teachers who resigned last year, a few years earlier than they had anticipated.  Last year was an exceptionally hard year, it is true.  We had so many teacher absences, and were constantly covering for teachers who were out and had no subs.  This year it is even harder. We still have a lot of teacher vacancies; in addition we have a large number of brand new teachers, or conditional teachers without formal teacher training and student teaching. They can do OK for a while, but they really need mentors; yet the mentor teacher support isn't there because most of those teachers have been moved back into the classroom themselves.

[b]Meanwhile, our school district is going like gangbusters with the next new big thing.  They do NOT understand how tapped out we all are. More and more teachers are leaving or planning to leave.[/b]

The ONE thing that the school district could do, to retain experienced teachers, IMO is just to calm the eff down.  Just let it be OK for us to be competent. Everything doesn't have to be bright and shiny and amazing. And beef up HR however you need to hire more teachers. Retrain administrators who are experiencing staff attrition.  When `10% of your teaching staff resigns, that's a sign you have a poor administrator.  Look at the principals who have managed to retain their experienced staff and ask "What is he doing, that other principals aren't doing?"  And then train your administrators to do those things.[/quote] Are you referring to the switch away from Lucy Caulkins' Readers and Writers workshop?  That  change had to happen.  Leaving that curriculum in place would be negligent given what is known.  It had to go and should have never happened.  [/quote]

HAHAHAHAHA- god no.  Most teachers hated that anyway.

That is small potatoes compared to the exit tickets, bulletin board mandates, showing growth every week for objectives that are year long ones, explaining repeatedly why a child who has never spoken English doesn't understand the latest test, testing for _______, progress monitoring for each objective (even tho the kid doesn't speak English), making sure kids are using sentence stems, turning on the right video for the next segment, checking lexia status and minutes per child, managing dreambox, and providing IEP updates, monitoring all the standards on the report card on the same google document and reporting out monthly on the standard during the data meeting, unpacking the latest standard and mapping the bought curriculum to the standard AGAIN even though the district already did this.

There is so much you don't understand that doesn't boil down to Lucy Caulkins. It is like all parents know how to say is Lucy Caulkins because they are listening to the next education podcast.[/quote]
Look, my daughter's school decided not to role out the school-distrivt purchased replacement curriculum to Lucy Caulkin's this year because the principal decided it was "too much change" post-pandemic.  My daughter's teacher promises that she's supplementing readers and writers workshop with phonics, but my confidence level that they're not teaching methods that should be thrown out is very low.  I'm having to teach my first grader phonics at home.  It's a real issue.  [/quote]

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