Teachers are drowning in meetings, readings, data tracking, videos, and PowerPoint presentations. And I think, from commentary I hear from teachers in other states and districts, that I deal with a fraction of what many are stacked with.
At the start of the year, I usually have some ideas of new things I would like to try. But, invariably, all of my mental bandwidth gets sucked up into some "new" procedure or program.
It is like you are trying to cook a turkey, but there are four other people in the kitchen who want to open the oven every 5 minutes to see if it is done. When you tell them you have to leave the oven alone so that the turkey can cook, they heartily agree. But a few moments later, one of them gets nervous and has to open the oven again.
There are way too many cooks in the educational kitchen.
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