I get that, but I mean we will (hopefully from a parent perspective) have the kids in school 5 days a week next year. So, it sounds like they need to expand contracted hours

Um, no. They won't expand contract hours. That would mean they'd have to increase pay. Most of the past 10 years at least APS teachers haven't been getting promised step or COLA increases so now you think they will find the money to give us more planning time? They'll just continue to make us work on our own unpaid time in order to meet basic requirements. And yeah, we have to buy our own post it notes and dry erase markers too. Thanks APS!

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Can’t be. Don’t you know that non-teachers know more about your job than you do?

/s

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Anonymous wrote:Is tomorrow a synchronous day for all elementary students in APS? Confused parent

Yes synchronous for k-12

Not at our school, it was only grade 3-5. Just to add an extra wrinkle

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

When did all this stuff occur prior to Asych Mondays? Did it just happen after the school day? I am just curious.

One thing you should understand is how much work related to teaching is expected to be done on our own time. There is quite literally not enough time in the contract hours to do it all. Yes there is “planning time” - that is usually when you have CLT meetings or PD they make us do once a month or an IEP meeting. Yes, meetings also occur before and after school. For example I have a department meeting tomorrow morning at 8 am. Faculty meetings were always after school on the first Tuesday of the month or whatever. Lesson planning and grading - the assumption is you’ll do it at home. And I used to, but I don’t anymore. If I can’t teach, grade, plan, pull data, give IEP feedback, attend meetings and trainings in the contracted hours, they gave me too much to do. I do absolutely zero work outside of contract any longer because I’m done doing work for free. It gets done on contract time, however many days that takes.

I get that, but I mean we will (hopefully from a parent perspective) have the kids in school 5 days a week next year. So, it sounds like they need to expand contracted hours

The 2 days I’m in person, my students only have 30 minutes for specials and those are virtual so I am required to remain in the classroom with them while they participate. I get my 45 minute lunch. Then I have recess duty. Students also come into the classroom on those days beginning at 8:40 because we don’t want them congregating together elsewhere so we have to be ready then (used to be arrival at 8:30 for teachers and then prep until about 8:50).

One virtual day per week we have a 1:15 minute meeting after school with our CLT which is grade level team, admin, specialists, to review intervention data, plan and evaluate assessment data, etc.

One day per week we have sped meetings (not Mondays).
One day per week just my subject matter meets to look ahead and divvy up responsibilities for preparing instruction and work. It takes quite a bit of time to make instruction and work virtually. APS doesn’t use workbooks and teacher manuals unfortunately. So we are creating our own assignments for each subject daily and it’s not a 5 minute task.

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

When did all this stuff occur prior to Asych Mondays? Did it just happen after the school day? I am just curious.

One thing you should understand is how much work related to teaching is expected to be done on our own time. There is quite literally not enough time in the contract hours to do it all. Yes there is “planning time” - that is usually when you have CLT meetings or PD they make us do once a month or an IEP meeting. Yes, meetings also occur before and after school. For example I have a department meeting tomorrow morning at 8 am. Faculty meetings were always after school on the first Tuesday of the month or whatever. Lesson planning and grading - the assumption is you’ll do it at home. And I used to, but I don’t anymore. If I can’t teach, grade, plan, pull data, give IEP feedback, attend meetings and trainings in the contracted hours, they gave me too much to do. I do absolutely zero work outside of contract any longer because I’m done doing work for free. It gets done on contract time, however many days that takes.

I think teachers have become so used to Mondays being a half-A$$ed day and brushing it off as a "planning day". Asking them to do synchronous on a random Monday is just too much.

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Anonymous wrote:I never learn. No matter how much I explain why this year has been so much harder and more work, you don’t care. Not bothering anymore. Hope you appreciate your children’s teachers and I thank my lucky stars that the parents of my students aren’t so disrespectful.
Have a great night.

You're right. Don't bother. Any second of the week you're not doing EXACTLY what entitled parents demand you be doing, since they mistakenly believe themselves to be your employer, they will throw tantrums. Decent parents appreciate your hard work. Thanks for what you do.

+1000. I know this year has been incredibly difficult for teachers. I am grateful for you and for all you do.

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

When did all this stuff occur prior to Asych Mondays? Did it just happen after the school day? I am just curious.

Meetings happened during specials when the students weren’t with us or during the school day. If the meetings were during the day (IEP, speech, etc), we had a sub or an assistant covered our classes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

When did all this stuff occur prior to Asych Mondays? Did it just happen after the school day? I am just curious.

There was planning/CLT during specials. There are also staff meetings after school a couple times per week. Most teachers do some planning before/after school. Putting lessons online requires more time and team coordination.

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

When did all this stuff occur prior to Asych Mondays? Did it just happen after the school day? I am just curious.

Anonymous wrote:I never learn. No matter how much I explain why this year has been so much harder and more work, you don’t care. Not bothering anymore. Hope you appreciate your children’s teachers and I thank my lucky stars that the parents of my students aren’t so disrespectful.
Have a great night.

You're right. Don't bother. Any second of the week you're not doing EXACTLY what entitled parents demand you be doing, since they mistakenly believe themselves to be your employer, they will throw tantrums. Decent parents appreciate your hard work. Thanks for what you do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

Many jobs have restrictions on when you can take personal days. If there aren't enough subs, then that's a pretty darn good reason to restrict when they can be used.

Go away, teacher hater.

Troll. This is just agreeing with a longstanding APS policy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop.

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.

We don’t log in. Haven’t since December. Couldn’t tell you what happens on a Monday. We’re never there.

Your lazy azz hasn’t logged in for 4 months and you think you get to say what is or isn’t happening in those sessions? You have no clue, you admit you don’t log in!

Well my lazy ass actually never logs in because I’m an adult and not a helicopter parent. Clearly we have missed nothing since December so yeah, nothing important is happening.

You’re the one who said “we” haven’t logged in

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

Many jobs have restrictions on when you can take personal days. If there aren't enough subs, then that's a pretty darn good reason to restrict when they can be used.

Go away, teacher hater.