<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I can say that the same thing has happened to me. I created a list of over 100 things I “do” gave the list to my principal and told/asked her to remove the non essential items. She decided we didn’t need to complete full inventories of the building with over 45,000 resources. <div><br></div><div>I am interested in any responses you receive. I am happy to find that list of you are interested. I’m sure I still have it. I did tell my assistants at the middle school and HS that inventory needs completion. The only time I get to analyze these are during the summer. It’s gotten old. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Kathryn Green</div><div dir="ltr">District Librarian </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2021, at 5:59 PM, Pulgar, Christine via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I don't see any of this changing so can you share any creative solutions? Are any other elementary teachers in the same boat? </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
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