Today I drove to Formosa again (92 km one way). It was a beautiful spring morning and I had a coffee and CBC playing, so I enjoyed the drive.
Cheryl and I had a busy day planning, organizing and typing.
First, we had a debriefing session over coffee. We read the evaluations the teachers gave us about our project and PD sessions. We re-hashed a few worries and had a laugh. Then it was time to cull, shred and re-organize the "Dreaded Paper Trail". We had 2 huge boxes of stuff to sort through.
Next, we took awhile to fill in all the Board Office paper work related to ordering lunches each day, paying out mileage (to me for the hundreds of kms I've driven), etc. etc. This is always a terrible moment for me because I have to literally hunt in the backseat of my car to find all my receipts. They are in a folder, but for some reason they migrate under my seats! Perhaps the receipts are lonely and hoping to meet a stray chip or forgotten Lego robot? In any case, once this job was accomplished we moved on.
We spent a long time talking about what needs to be in our final project submission. It is our intention to create and bind a book with all the work from this year. It will includes the templates and the exemplars for all the future writing moderation sessions.
We also made a phone call to the Ministry of Education. We begged for an extension of the deadline and received it. Whew! Now we have a few extra weeks to wrap this all up.
Tomorrow, it is typing time. Cheryl and I will spend the day typing up all the work the teacher's accomplished during their moderation sessions, in preparation for the final book.
Wish us luck!
