says Albert Einstein.  It’s funny, from time to time, I DO feel like everything is happening at once, just not enough time to reflect on it and evaluate the meaning of it in our lives.

Yet again, I have been lazy with the upkeep of my blog.  Scrolling through my twitter feed, and occasionally looking at my profile, I see my link to this blog sitting there, passing time.  So much has happened since my last post, but I have a bit of difficulty figuring out what to write about first.

For the last three weeks of school, I was a substitute for one grade 4/5 class.  The teacher who was taking time off due to medical reasons, asked me if I was interested in this.  Of course, I was absolutely ready! I had previously worked with this class from time to time and had developed a great rapport with them; but before I knew it, it was all over.  I’ll post stories about this experience later.

As a Teach On Call (TOC), we are sheltered from the internal communication at any one school.  Being included in this communication ring during this past moth, really expanded my view of the communication that happens, behind the scenes.  I love it!  Previous to this small position, my inbox would maybe have 1 or 2 messages per week, but suddenly I was inundated with emails every hour or two.  I was a part of the ring!  It was great feeling.  I honestly didn’t realize so much was going on, and it suddenly sunk in, exactly why some of my colleagues cringed when the topic of email emerged.

Before I had “my own classroom”, I was running technology and math enrichment classes for all grades.  At one point I needed to send an email to all the teachers in the school.  It was a schedule.  It was simply meant to keep them informed of the times that the students they had personally selected to participate, were not going to be in class.  Having done this I still had to personally gather students from each class, using valuable time, and usually being met by the teacher with surprise.  I couldn’t figure out why they were surprised.  I sent them an email with the schedule.  Did I need to send out reminders emails and or use the meeting function in our email system? I wouldn’t think so.  Looking back now, I really should have.  What could it have hurt?  Another email?  No.  An attempt to keep communication rolling.

Having now been exposed to the internal school email ring, I can easily see how things get missed.  There is a lot.  Many of these email had nothing to do with me, but I still needed to keep up with the conversations.

Anyways, I think that is enough for this post.  It feels better that I wrote something now

D.