OT: Teachers of Boneyard...Back to School Time

[tzznandrew]

Fun convo,

Shell drill all the way, but I might throw in a 3-1-1 halfcourt trap at some point to generate turnovers since we can't press until the final minute of any half.

I concur w/ every coach on here, middle school is all about skill building, teamwork, building character and understanding the game.

My only bugaboo is that we practice, at most, two times a week for 50 minutes. I'm in a league where some teams practice every day, so it's been a rough few years especially since our international students play very little, if at all, basketball outside of school, or even watch it for that matter.

Yeah, we had a press too. We played a 1-2-1-1 (Diamond) that worked well because most kids (including our own) couldn't get enough distance on a deep pass and our soccer players we're exceptional at swooping in and taking any pass that didn't have enough mustard on it and they weren't afraid of contact.

We could have played it all game, and with our stamina probably could have really run scores up at the JV level, but that wasn't the point. Nothing wrong with soccer, but one of those JV kids, if she started with basketball instead, could have probably played in college. Just exceptional speed and instincts. Just we had to build her dribbing and shooting up from nothing. Forcing ourselves into half-court games was also about skill growth. That kid went to Brown on a sailing scholarship, though, so she hasn't done too bad for herself...

 

[husky429]

My only bugaboo is that we practice, at most, two times a week for 50 minutes. I'm in a league where some teams practice every day, so it's been a rough few years especially since our international students play very little, if at all, basketball outside of school, or even watch it for that matter.

That's horrendous. My middle school had the same practice schedule as the high school. 6 days a week, 2 hours a day, and no winter break for athletes.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

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.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The good news is the CTSEDs//PowerSchool interaction we were promised on July 1st in my district happened today?

 

[History Geek]

The good news is the CTSEDs//PowerSchool interaction we were promised on July 1st in my district happened today?

We got ours in early September. Seems to be working fine for now.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

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

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

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

 

[History Geek]

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?

 

[temery]

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.

 

[temery]

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.

 

[History Geek]

Wow

 

[husky429]

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.

 

[husky429]

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.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

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...

 

[JohnFSilver]

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.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

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

 

[JohnFSilver]

Soapbox:

1. Teachers are unsung hero of every community. Love them.
2. Parents, get your dirty kid to wash their hands.