Deep breaths, ChiKat. Focus on getting systems in place--systems for attendance, for parent communications, for seating, for bathroom passes, etc. I know it sounds hopelessly mundane, but good, solid systems will get you through the year. (You likely already know this, but I'll share just in case!)
You'll never be totally ready, but you're going to be great!
(I'm really trying not to think about the fact that school starts for me in less than two weeks. I will be having this freakout and you will be talking
me
down at the end of next week.)
Kristin, I'll take whatever sharing you've got! Like, I totally forgot about bathroom passes. Totally necessary and simple, yet totally forgot.
Another thing I do early on is make email lists. Do your students have school email accounts? If so, you can create mailing lists including all the students in each class. That little trick has saved my butt many a time when I realize I've forgotten to tell a class something or when I want to let them know about upcoming dates.
Re: bathroom passes--depends on age and school rules, but I've found a clipboard sign-out sheet hanging by the door with a generic hall pass to be effective for high schoolers. That way they don't interrupt the class to ask to go to the bathroom--they know they can sign out and sign back in on their own, and you have a written record of how often they're leaving class.
I need to get my crap together and throw a change of clothes in a bag for yet another trip to Florida tomorrow morning.
I'm also trying to get a utility rack for the new truck ordered before I leave.
I'm tired.
SA is unbelievably cute. And whip smart to boot.
ND: are you flaying out of Burbank again or might we meet for a cocktail in the lounge at LAX?
SA is unbelievably cute. And whip smart to boot.
::smothers sean in kisses::
or might we meet for a cocktail in the lounge at LAX?
Oooh, Encounter is always fun.
SA, that is very good hair, and a darling hat.
