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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have posted this before.  I have 45 minutes of individual planning time a day.  In that 45 minutes, I need to:
- plan lessons - I have three different classes, so I have to plan 15 different lessons per week.  We have a new schedule this year, so everything needs to be adjusted
- analyze curriculum that the county is asking me to teach to see if there is any bias/racism in it and if there is I need to figure out how to address that 
- can't use the lessons from last year, because school has a new initiative with a new focus, so need to adjust the lessons, sometimes have to just completely start over
- set up Canvas pages (I have three preps, so three Canvas pages)
- grade papers and provide feedback (if I don't get this, DCUM will call me lazy)
- complete IEP/504 paperwork (I teach 20+ kids with IEPs, that means 20+ quarterly reports that I have to fill out, so the week that those are due, means pretty much no planning/grading is happening because, well those are legally mandated)
- contact parents of students who are failing, if parent answers the phone, this could take up the entire 45 minutes
- contact parents of students who did not turn in their assignment
- respond to parent emails (again if I don't respond quickly enough, I am lazy)
- respond to admin because a parent emails them to complain that teachers are marking student late, when student tell parent they are always on time.
- send out reminders to student who didn't turn in assignments
- respond to student emails (a lot of them are 'I turned in this assignment yesterday, why haven't you graded it')
- respond to staff emails
- document parent contacts in Synergy
- hopefully there is time to use the bathroom
- try to find students who have turned in their major writing assignment
- talk to counselor of needs of students
- talk to IEP case managers
- sync grades to Synergy and hope that they actually sync 
- collect data/lesson that is needed for a team meeting/department meeting

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That is a lot. As a parent, I was always shocked when teachers emailed me back from the classroom. You need to be available to the kids. I don’t think people expect such swift responses. Is that admin putting pressure on you to do so? [/quote]

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