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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher with a masters on year 13 and just started making 70K this year. I work the entire day without a break (I return emails and prep materials during my 30 minute lunch) and every year before this year I worked probably 25-30 hours/week outside of my duty day. This year I said eff it and work about 10 hours/week extra. I am basically ready for the next day and that's it after all of the data entry and admin work. And that will have to be enough. I don't get paid enough to work 70 hours/week to the detriment of my own family. So it will have to be enough. [/quote]

What grade/subject do you teach?  Don't you get a planning period?[/quote]

I teach elementary ESOL and work with 2 grade levels. I have to attend grade level team planning meetings for both grade levels so that takes 2 of my planning times and that's not actually me planning my lessons--it's listening to what the grade level teams will be covering the following week so that I can determine what will be most important for me to cover but then I actually have to create the lessons, materials and assessments I'll use since I don't have an ESOL curriculum. Even if I buy a lesson from TpT it still usually involves prepping the materials. Then a 3rd planning time is the ESOL team meeting, so that leaves two 40 minute planning periods per week, but often I have EMT or IEP meetings during that time, or I have to attend the grade level data chats (math and reading for each grade level) once/month. Then I have dismissal duty every day until the last bus leaves. All of those things combined don't leave a ton of time to actually get anything done. [/quote]

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