Cutting Down

I may be able to get the time-at-school thing cut down to a more reasonable level. But it's still pretty out of balance. Left at 4 pm on Thursday, so that's 11.25 hours. Arrived at 5:15 and left at 3:45 on Friday, for 10.5 hours. The reduction is promising. But the only way I could leave earlier Friday is because I knew that I'd be coming in on Saturday....

So here I am, working with a colleague to set up our science credit retrieval program for the fall. This entails collecting data on students who had barely failing grades or attendance issues, and grouping and sorting so that they can be assigned a reasonable number of extra class sessions for the purpose of extra learning, with the result that the student can retrieve a passing grade.

I like the idea of it, and it is successful in helping our students see themselves as responsible and in control of earning their grades. They say that they think it is fair.

It takes a few hours to set up the groups, though. I arrived at 8 am this Saturday. We'll see how it goes, getting everything ready.

For my time tally so far: 3 school days in this first week, 33.25 hours at school (plus whatever I spend today). I'm averaging slightly over 11 hours per day on school days.