Counting…

Time spent on meetings yesterday: The Wednesday minimum of two hours and ten minutes. Bilingual fortunately did not hold a meeting, so I only had grade and school meetings.

Time spent working on standardized-testing: Three hours and fifteen minutes, mostly preparing slips of paper to present to students showing them their AIMSWEB and MAP scores from fall to spring. I am supposed to do this on Monday. Fortunately, most of them show improvement. Some of them show significant improvement.

I find the scores interesting. Imagine what we might have done with a little less testing! Suppose we had spent 5% of the year on standardized testing instead of over 10%…