Day off from teaching today. Because of my odd 5-person collaborative (the result of me and AY being rolled into another collaborative after our first class was terminated), I only get to lead teach for 4 45 minute blocks a week, and we team-teach an hour-long literacy/numeracy hour every day. This is quite a drop-off from the first week, where I was teaching a 1.5 hour block twice a week. On the other hand, it was nice just to have a little time to catch up. In other news, my collaborative had its first big malfunction today, which led to some members venting some pent-up frustration. Apparently we arranged to meet a student's mom after school today, but never really figured out which of us was going to do it (we figured that 5 teachers showing up would be a bit overwhelming...) The upshot was, nobody actually went down to see her, which makes us look pretty incompetent, so we all kinda dropped the ball. This was sorta the last straw for those who thought that some of us were kind of running a loose ship. I personally think that we all need to meet more so our wires don't get crossed at all, and I certainly need to step up and take more ownership over the class. Hopefully at our meeting tonight everything can get ironed out.

Really looking forward to getting home to Oswego for Harborfest this weekend... looks like most of the crew from OHS will be there- AS, DV, AC, BS, RH, DW, etc. should be good times (and a hell of a lot cheaper than going out in NYC).