I have a job description, but it seems that I get extra stuff to do. I've spent the morning adding thee free and reduced status of about 135 students for the food services department. Granted this is partly my fault because I don't want to give them access to MSIS. (That's a story in its self.) I'm also printing school report cards for all five schools. (The noise is giving me a headache.) While they're printing, I have to figure out a new program purchased by one of the schools so I can train the staff members. ( I haven't figured that one out yet - I had nothing to do with selecting/purchasing this software, but I get to provide the training for it.). Oh well, that's all for now. My e-mail is steadily filling up with problems as I write this. Talk to you later.
Addie
Boone's Farm
Kade's 4-H project quickly turned into a family project. We got the chickens when they were two days old. Shane and Kade built a biddy box and a coop from scratch. The chickens have added to our family experiences!!!!
Kade
Kade doing what he loves best!
6 comments:
Hi Addie,
It certainly sounds like you have a lot on your plate! I really admire you working full time, and taking classes full time while raising a child and taking care of a family! I always tell my husband that if I had kids on top of all of this right now I don't know how I'd do it. But, my doctoral journey is close to over so hopefully the kids part will come along soon after! Good luck with everything. I look forward to hearing more about your life through your blog!!!
Your job sounds just like my district. Everyone is over worked and under paid. Your job description is do whatever you need to do. I am an administrator so I am putting out fires all day and then have to work late to keep up with paper work. I receive on average 60 emails a day that I have to respond to plus student activities. I have to manage the afterschool program from 3-6PM everyday. My district has been state run for years and it's a mess! Every three years a new state super comes in and changes everything and then he gets bounced out then we get a new person who changes everything again. The new super just revealed his plan of "teaming" to save money on supplies and then a three year rotating cycle of looping for teachers. Meaning K-2 teachers will loop for three years and then start over in grade K. Grades 3-5 will loop and grades 6-8. This model works in districts were there is a primary school, elementary school and middle school. My school is k-8 with 1,000 students 150 staff and one cafe, one gym, one art room, one computer/library room. The super has no idea how this will effect morale and student achievement. He said that he is committed to this plan and that's it. The morale is already so low that teachers leave right at 3:10 and leave students behind for me to try and locate a family member to pick up. They do not help with dismissal or discipline etc. I am the end all be all for everything and everyone and then I have an eight year old daughter, a 78 year old father who lives in NY and I live in NJ, and NOVA to deal with. So I definately can relate to your job and family keep you extremely busy. At least we do have our loved ones to give us joy! I do enjoy my job and helping the students and teachers achieve success.
That’s sounds like a normal day to me. What ever that means?! (Normal). A day that would be out of the ordinary for people in the education field would be a day when you only did what is expected. That would be very unusual because we are constantly faced with surprise situations that we must handle in addition to the work load that we normally perform. In your post I took it that you got every thing done, which is great. Also busy is good. Too much still time would drive me crazy too. So really I can’t win. If there’s too much to do, I got crazy and the same goes on a slow day. The good side of that is that in the class room I have no slow days. So, I have not gotten to that place where you are now, but as I move up the leadership chain, I will see it. When I was interning last year a had mini days like that. I was glad to get back to the four walls of my classroom. A voice is my head says, “do you really want to leave the classroom for that madness?” So I said to myself, (not out loud :) I’m game!
Your situation my seem like it is crazy and hectic right now, but look at it as being very different one day. You are successfully multitasking.
The day will come when you son will go away to school, you may become bored and decide to pursue another doctorate degree.
I am speaking from experience. When my daughters we young and I was trying to juggle a career, their many, many activities I thought I would never see a "me" day. Now my youngest is 8 hours away in college, my oldest has finished college and lives in another state, my husband is ready to retire from the police department, I just became a high school principal, and I am trying to complete this program.
I may not have the physical demands you have, but we both have alot going on in our minds. But you know what? We will get through this and be all the better for it. Just think of how proud your family will be of you when you complete this program. But more importantly, think of how proud you will be of yourself. I guarantee you will have a "new attitude". I know I will. Good Luck
Seems as though you’re spread pretty thin! Sorry about that. Reviewing you blog was interesting. Based on the items you were working, printing report cards, free and reduced meals enrollment, and other things not to mention keeping up with Kadie and tour other half, you must a master scheduler as well! If I had to guess, you must be some type of administrator. Are you at the school level or the district level?
From a technology perspective, I noted that you were dealing with some free and reduced meal enrollments. Has the technology caught up with you such that as students move from system to system or school to school that the data for them follows limiting the amount of time necessary to manage the updates? In our district in South Carolina, we are getting closer to resolving the delay of determining who receives these meals because of the technology available to generate reports that pre-select families allowing us to handle other issues at registration. Having this information readily available helps determine which students will pay no student fees or pay reduced student fees. The system is not without its kinks, not to mention, the confidentiality issues, but it is better than having to fill out the paperwork as we did in the past! Enjoy your blog! Don’t forget to smell the roses!
WOW! The life of an educator is fast-paced and full of activity! I remember the days of doing those free and reduced lunch forms. Back then - it was all by hand, even the verification part. Goodness, I can't really say that I miss that part. Since that time (I'm in my 26th year) things have improved with the use of technology in determining status, etc. Even though it is very time consuming, funding is so critical based on that accurate data. I'm sure you are doing a great job. I also know what you mean about wanting to do it yourself. I would rather know that's it's my error if there is one than searching to see what happened.
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