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We got ours in early September. Seems to be working fine for now.
For the longest time this year there was no icon for us to denote 504 or special Ed. Then we got a folder icon to mean sped and today access to the doc from PowerSchool
 

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We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.
This year I’m coaching teeball on Mondays. Definitely Monday
 
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For the longest time this year there was no icon for us to denote 504 or special Ed. Then we got a folder icon to mean sped and today access to the doc from PowerSchool
We have a two people under the teacher contract based in the district office dedicated to researching/recommending/supporting all district teachers educational platforms we use. One of them is in charge of PowerSchool. He bugged the state to get SPED/PowerSchool handshake? fixed after last year's clusterf_. Maybe he became the beta tester and now its rolling out to others. Who knows?
 

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We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.

Any day there was a meeting or parent conference after school. SPED conferences took the longest.
 

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We have a two people under the teacher contract based in the district office dedicated to researching/recommending/supporting all district teachers educational platforms we use. One of them is in charge of PowerSchool. He bugged the state to get SPED/PowerSchool handshake? fixed after last year's clusterf_. Maybe he became the beta tester and now its rolling out to others. Who knows?

The number of teachers added to the faculty yearly whose job was to do anything but teach went up every year in my system.

One year my school was recognized for having the lowest student teacher ratio in the region. Class size was over 30. The reported ratio was 12:1.
 
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We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.


Tuesday. I hate Tuesdays.
 
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The number of teachers added to the faculty yearly whose job was to do anything but teach went up every year in my system.

One year my school was recognized for having the lowest student teacher ratio in the region. Class size was over 30. The reported ratio was 12:1.

My district has a super, assistant super, director of academics and curriculum, MLL director, Socio-emotional learning director, around 10 instructional coaches, direct of student services, an attendance coordinator in each building, a Powerschool administrator, a "database specialist", psychology coordinator, 3 out of district liasons, a residency specialist and maybe 6 SPED directors.. And that's only the one's I can think of.

None of them work with children directly. This is AFTER cutting a ridiculous amount of positions over the past 6 months to meet the budget.
 
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It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
 
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It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
Hmm. Have a friend who is always sick and has a stiff neck and body aches out of nowhere.
 

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It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
A couple of weeks ago I had a bad sore throat and my lymph nodes were a little swollen. felt back to normal in 2-3 days. it was very bizarre
 

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Anyone following HR 82?

 
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Anyone following HR 82?


Won't do anything to fix the crisis of social security funding, but it is the fair thing to do. Hoping it passes and gets signed.
 

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Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?
 
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Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?

I would check the student handbook and their rules for honor roll should be outlined in there.

I teach high school now, used to teach MS, but in order to get an Honors Diploma you have to get a C or higher in every class. A C- isn't considered a C. It is clearly outlined. So I would check.
 
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Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?
MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
 
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A couple of weeks ago I had a bad sore throat and my lymph nodes were a little swollen. felt back to normal in 2-3 days. it was very bizarre
There's a nasty flu going around the school I teach at. I've been lucky to avoid it so far, but it seems the kids who get it are out for at least a full week of school.
I'm getting over a bad cold (sore throat, head ache), and there is also a different stomach bug going around as well. Last month, strep was finishing its rounds.
 
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This flu has been literally the only sickness I didn’t get this year in the middle school, dropping like flies.
 

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MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
Yeah that’s more of what I was getting at. I do know the metrics that our school uses, ie you need at least an 80% in every class to make the honor roll. I was just wondering if that was the norm around the region/country because I thought it was a little strange.
 
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There's a nasty flu going around the school I teach at. I've been lucky to avoid it so far, but it seems the kids who get it are out for at least a full week of school.
I'm getting over a bad cold (sore throat, head ache), and there is also a different stomach bug going around as well. Last month, strep was finishing its rounds.
Same with our school ever since the return from winter break. About half of our kids are international students and many travel far and wide during vacations, so to quote my primary care doctor: "you work in a ******* petri dish."

Case in point, in my seventh grade math class, six out of thirteen kids have missed 12+ days of school so far.
 

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It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
mono?
 

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MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
Of course Hey Adrien is a math teacher!! Based on his work on the BY I will wager a damn good one too.
 

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