[aisle] administrative duties

[Pulgar, Christine]

For those of you on a fixed schedule, how do you get your
administrative duties completed?  I leave the same day as the classroom
teachers.  I asked to not see students the last two weeks of school so I
can do a full inventory (with my clerk) of the 28,000 items in our
collection.  We are still missing so many things from last year.  My
principal replied that it "wouldn't be fair to the other specialists if I
had more non-student contact time."  I was told that my clerk can handle
it.  Ok, *maybe* she can scan 28,000 items in two weeks in addition to
collecting and shelving books, and collecting devices at the end of the
year, but she doesn't do the analysis or put together orders. We have had
80% of our students in school full time since August, and we adjusted our
school day so that we all have a plan period before the students arrive.
This means that  this year I am not a 'special" since all of the
specialists remote stream into the classrooms where the homeroom teacher is
present.

I had to remind my principal that my job description and Danielson
framework are not the same as classroom teachers, or other specialists.
This equity issue has slowly removed all of my administrative time in my
schedule over the 18 years I've been at my building.  I've been told I have
the same plan time as everyone else and when I try to explain that my
"plan" time is used to plan lessons for my 28 classes and not for doing
library admin work, it falls on deaf ears.

I don't see any of this changing so can you share any creative solutions?
Are any other elementary teachers in the same boat?

Christine Pulgar
Reader. Teacher. Librarian. – MLIS; NBCT
Glen Oaks School
Hickory Hills, IL 60457
708-233-6806
cpulgar at npd117.net
https://twitter.com/CpulgarNBCT
https://twitter.com/glenoakslibrary
"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should
be offered to them as a precious gift." - Kate DiCamillo
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