What’s on my mind lately? The amount of stuff I have to do:

• One grade per week per student
• One Common Formative Assessment per class per three weeks
• One Common Summative Assessment per class per grading period
• Contacting all homeroom parents by phone within the next three weeks
• One collaborative team meeting per week
• One grade-level English teacher meeting per week
• One grade-level meeting per week
• Assorted meetings with district personal about various topics
• Assorted 504 and IEP meetings
• Lesson plans in a very detailed required format that include
  • Differentiation for ML (multi-lingual) students for each lesson
  • Differentiation for special education students for each lesson
  • Differentiation for early finishers
  • Plans for collaborative teaching with co-teacher in inclusion classes
  • Plans for integration of ML strategies
• Data chats with students every Monday
• Faculty or department meeting every other week
• Positive notes to three students each week
• Create a list of every book in my classroom library
• Make publically available every resource I use

And that really doesn’t cover everything — that’s just what I could list off the top of my head.

Is it any wonder so many teachers are burning out?