[aisle] administrative duties

[Jo Anne Sundberg]

Sorry to hear this but it could get worse.  My district no longer has a
Media Specialist.  I'm the assistant running the whole library and haven't
been able to complete a full inventory for many years.  I think because
teachers do their prep on their own time they expect you to also do that.
It's sad and the work load is huge.

JoAnne Sundberg
Manor Hill LRC
(630) 827-4344


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 5:59 PM Pulgar, Christine via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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
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