I was surfing around some of my favorite teacher blogs and came upon this post writen by Graycie at Today’s Homework. Here’s an exerpt:
My rule is that I don’t have to think about school (not in any practical way (messing around with my wiki and reading the thoughtful and intelligent words of all you ed bloggers counts as ‘fun’) until August 1st. Then I’ll figure out what day I have to go back, what day I’ll really go back to “check my room out” (read: start moving furniture and hanging wall stuff) . . .
That describes me almost perfectly this summer. When I left school the end of May, I did not even think about school again in any substantial way until July 24th when I began six days of workshops - 4 days of writing and 2 days of coaching (academic - not athletic). And yesterday I drove to my school and just looked around for about 15 minutes to decide how I would arrange the desks and bookshelves.Â
After having a classroom all to myself for two years, I will have to share my room with the leveled book room and the teachers’ professional library. Our school is growing and the two rooms that housed those items were needed.Â
It will work out, though. Before school was out, I drew a diagram of how everything should be. Then during the summer when the work crews moved everything, they followed the diagram. So my room is mostly set up - with just a little rearranging on my part.  The space for my reading groups was substantially reduced, but I’m still more fortunate than many of the other reading specialists in our school systems. A couple of them have only a rolling cart or a closet to call home at their schools. At least I have a room - and I don’t have to share it with another teacher - just with a lot of books.
So tomorrow (Sunday) is my last official day of summer vacation. I will go to Sunday school and church, spend time with RT, maybe go to the farmers market to get some fresh tomatoes, and relax. I will NOT think about school, though. Monday will be here soon enough.
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August 9th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
You are very lucky that the cleaning crew was as good as they were. I’ve heard horror stories about cleaning crews. Does the cleaning crew work at your school full time? I posted an article on my blog a week ago about the importance of thanking the school janitors and cleaning crews. The link is: http://www.pass-ed.com/2006_08_01_archive.html#115448315226118171
Thanks for your post.
Andrew Pass
http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html
August 10th, 2006 at 6:26 am
There is a maintenance group that goes through the schools in the county during the summer break to do the heavy lifting/moving - following directions from the teachers or principals. Then we have a full-time mother/daughter custodial team at our school that does the other moving needed. They’re great.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pm