Re: Empty Swings & Stressed Out Expressions!

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On 10/14/08, 1st grade teacher wrote:
> I feel your pain! I have the same song, just a different
> verse. LOL Only difference is we adopted Scott Foresman
> Reading Street and do TEAM Math (another initiative, just
> specific to East Alabama and rooted to Auburn University)
> using Scott Foreman math and Investigations. Yeah, when our
> reading coach is telling a veteran teacher that they need to
> learn better time management, then something is very wrong
> with the picture! For the first time, I dread walking into
> the school each morning. We are expected to do these daily
> messages and ask questions relavent to the theme of the
> week, but are only suppose to allow one or two students to
> respond due to time restraints. Um, they are first graders
> and they ALL want to share! Then we are given ridiculous
> tasks to do that are of no benefit to the classroom teacher
> just so the reading coach and principal can do a walk
> through and check up on what we are doing. It has started
> off as a VERY frustrating year!

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