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4–some days drowning. Some days okay.

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The kids are great, for the most part! I see a lot of them willing to work!

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Everyone has been so nice and willing to let me vent!

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Communication. I don’t know what to do when students do certain things. I don’t know where to send kids when they ask questions I don’t have answers to. I have no paper. I don’t know where the copy room is. It’s a lot.

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Better new teachers meetings.

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Always a teacher. Lauren Hussey and Carrie Hoff

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Always a teacher. Lauren Hussey and Carrie Hoff

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Outside of the class disciplinary structure? A clock that works? A phone that works? Basic things needed for safety??? Outside students disrupting classes. Communication. Access to perfectly appropriate sites on the Promethean. 

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Outside of the class disciplinary structure? A clock that works? A phone that works? Basic things needed for safety??? Outside students disrupting classes. Communication. Access to perfectly appropriate sites on the Promethean. 

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Having classes set long before beginning of the year so there are no surprises. Being given curriculums for the electives with little to no standards. More pay.

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Having classes set long before beginning of the year so there are no surprises. Being given curriculums for the electives with little to no standards. More pay.

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STUDENT SCHEDULING!
Seems like students keep getting swapped around classes. who is in charge of doing it and why are we still moving students around without letting teachers know.

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8
grateful for all the teacher support in the school

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6 - Students, for the most part, are great. It's all the other stuff outside of the kids that are making this year more difficult.

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The kids are great and easier to manage this year.

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UTLA is ON IT!!

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Ruiz does so much and still has time to hear my nonsense.

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ALL the SPED teachers

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Student scheduling is a mess right now. Kids are getting shuffled around (STILL) with little to no communication.
Overall, communication is a HUGE issue at our school site right now.

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- Better communication with teachers and staff. I shouldn't be finding out information from students.
- Transparency from Admin when it comes to hiccups. If we're expected to explain why things go wrong for us, then it should also be the other way around.
- Teacher appreciation that goes beyond a thank you in an email. At times it feels like those in power don't care. For me, a general thank you in an email is NOT ENOUGH.
- CONCRETE consequences in place for poor student behavior. Positive Behavior Incentives are great, but what do we do when there is Negative Behavior? There need to be consequences in place.
- Schoolwide cell phone policy
- People being held accountable for their actions (and not just teachers/staff).
- Bringing back the After School Tutoring Program! The kids are not going to go to Saturday Intervention. Also, give students incentives for going!

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ADMIN should send a memo/email letting teachers know what responsibilities and duties everyone in the administration is in charge of. There is a lack of communication from operations and I don't know about everyone else, but I am confused who I need to talk to when I have specific questions.

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3

My students are great, the rating is for stuff happening outside of students.

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My students are great for the most part.

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Hussey!

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Student scheduling and communication!

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Admin should communicate more with teachers when switching things around (schedules or anything else for that matter!)

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Great teacher support by other teachers. 

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Great teacher support by other teachers. 

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Sandra The Goat Ruiz!

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1—I feel down trodden. I look forward to lunch.

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Ruiz - Thank you for hugs and open door policy.
Hussey - Thank you for the awesome ideas and curriculum.
Rivera - Printing, support and great attitude
Sanders - Telling like it is and getting me thru grading
Miller - Calming influence and good vibes
Hoff - Mentorship
Perez - the laughs
Feeley - Your greeting always make me smile and the bathroom break
Geronimo - the chats and understanding
Taylor - mentorship
Madali - Support and advice
Hawes - tech help, door blocker and great ideas
Harris - coffee, water and golden nuggets
Jacobs - friendship and support
Carlos and Gus...

It takes a village. Thank you.

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School wide policy for classroom disturbances - CONSEQUENCES - students know there are none so what do they have to lose by wandering the halls or not coming to class on time?!?!
Communication between counselors and teachers.
Administration FOLLOWING THRU with promises and communication

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SCHOOL WIDE CELL PHONE POLICY.

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I still need a stapler, a pencil sharpener, pencils, paper to make copies. At this point, I consider highlighters and tape to be unattainable.

Also, a copy machine that doesn't make copies look like they were copied in 1996.

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Less talk. More action. Concrete, delineated action steps. NO MORE RANDOM ASSEMBLIES—like ever. Please. They just showcase how disorganized we are. When an admin is out, we should be notified….not suddenly find out they are gone for 2 weeks. I understand they are human but we have a school to run.

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10

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Students are more engaged this year!

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Grateful for Dipti checking in and our lunch meeting chats.

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Communication. There is a lack of communication of what is going on all the time. 

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Communication. There is a lack of communication of what is going on all the time. 

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I have great students

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UTLA rep is dong a good job. Thank you Ms Ruiz

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All teachers , Mr Valdez and crew and admin and crew are the best

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strict cell phone policy, classroom disturbance policy, and consequences for students jump off the fence

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better communication with all department and admin, most of the time we dont know what is going on on campus. lack of information to the teacher and admin

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Can we just make Ruiz admin already???

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Great communication and support from UTLA reps!

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Ruiz for Pres!

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Ms. Booker STILL has not removed Schoology courses that I requested over a month ago even after a couple of reminders.

Counselors used to be able to add/remove courses, but that admin privilege is no longer available to them for some reason.

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PERMANENT AC Repair...no more annual bandaids!

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2-not the students. Communication

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For once I feel like my union membership is worthwhile!

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4

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We have pretty good students. Some knuckle heads here and there but good overall. They greet me every morning and genuinely ask if I’m okay when I have a sub. I just wish we could give them a better experience than what we’re giving.

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Why is everyone always in the dark?

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Admin understanding how communication is key to structure and staff dynamics.

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1The Worst Year Ever.                                              I am a veteran teacher.  I say this because I hate this school and it makes me feel unwelcome, unsupported, and like I am NOT the caring expert that knows my students best.  Some out of classroom support is awesome, librarian looking at you.  Ms Chi is professional .  End of list.  I would most likely add Fushan but she is back in the classroom.  Everyone else is new to their job so inexperienced, others, very old in their position and so condescending to teachers or just plain ignorant to the contract that they have us meeting during our conference period 2 times within a month period.  Do you all not know the contract????  You are NOT administrators and some of you all act like you never have been a teacher before.  Sad!  

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1The Worst Year Ever.                                              I am a veteran teacher.  I say this because I hate this school and it makes me feel unwelcome, unsupported, and like I am NOT the caring expert that knows my students best.  Some out of classroom support is awesome, librarian looking at you.  Ms Chi is professional .  End of list.  I would most likely add Fushan but she is back in the classroom.  Everyone else is new to their job so inexperienced, others, very old in their position and so condescending to teachers or just plain ignorant to the contract that they have us meeting during our conference period 2 times within a month period.  Do you all not know the contract????  You are NOT administrators and some of you all act like you never have been a teacher before.  Sad!  

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5 some days are great some days are not. I never know till the day of :(

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Support from
Other teachers is great

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For the most part students are engaged and here! Other factors such as excessive announcements and excessive summons don't help the flow in my classroom.

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UTLA strength and communication

My lessons/ activities

My students

Some excellent colleagues

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Over-communicating/ under-communicating
The students' schedule changes were too much!
We're having an assembly...not we're not...yes we are...no we're not.
Not being on the same page as what is important for the school and the students- THEY deserve better
Everything being so last minute- Let's stop putting out fires and plan ahead.
Being a model for what we want our students to act like.

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Seniors lack "senior experience" (i.e. portraits)

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Clear communication (no ad-libbing over the PA, no backtracking) Admin need to do better with both teachers and students.

Modeling respect-some of the communication lacks common courtesy and respect to teachers (students hear it)

Working AC

Timely orders for teacher materials

More admin presence on campus actually talking to the students and checking in with them.

Less pulling students from classes- if they are supposed to do work in class (and not have lots of homework) then they actually need to be in class to do it.

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Need a way to get support to a hallway quickly- students sitting outside rooms on their phones and running out of classes. Call but nobody comes

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Need a way to get support to a hallway quickly- students sitting outside rooms on their phones and running out of classes. Call but nobody comes

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I have not handed in my resignation papers in, so there is that.  Some of you will be covering my classes either this year or next. Worst. Year. Ever.

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Ruiz.

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People need to start communicating in a professional manner.  Admin wants us to stop using email but email is the only paper trail that will CYA.   Some of you out of classroom UTLA member forget what it is like to be in a classroom.  1. 2. You all are NOT administrators, stop acting like you are.  You are NOT to give directives of any sort, to any teacher, it is laughable and is ignored or should be.

Admin is non-existent when communicating or when trying to do anything that is remotely important, whether it is administering directives from the district, testing procedures, or any procedure for that matter.  Seems like admin does their job by the seat of their pants.  Oh and can someone tell Admin N, that his jokes are NOT funny and are in fact unprofessional.

Students are walking around on campus and campus aides, admin and out of class UTLA members do not have one solution.  Often I see them chucking it up on the yard with each other.  Must be nice.

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Would be great if I got the supplies I requested.

Would be great if admin knew how to support teachers and then follow through.

Would be great if we could communicate professionally without being condescending.

Would be great if we did not blame the trouble of the world on teachers.

Would be great if out of classroom personnel could have some sympathy

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I’m hanging by a thread. Being a new teacher sucks and all I can think about is Abbot Elementary and how relevant it is. I do what I can to support my students and their needs and be the best possible teacher I can be. I’ve wanted to be a change and an impact in the lives of my students but it’s hard to do that given the circumstances and constraints. And if I’m seeing senior teachers struggle, then I know it’s not me. I’m not this pessimistic of a person in my nature, but I see it showing at work. wow this is rough.

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Other teachers have been very sweet and kind. When moments with students are great, they’re really great. And when they’re not, it’s disheartening.

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Shoutout to Ruiz, Baranwal, Melgar, Lamas, Fushan, De La Paz, Arce, Harris, Holland, Moy, Leatherwood, among others who have always been warm, checked in on me, and an ear of understanding. Thank you all!

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Shout out to Charles and Luis our new IT guys. They are efficient and helpful. They love their job.

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Certificate of Positive Behavior

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Ms. Cunningham, Ms. Calles, Ms. Alvarez
Ms. Gutierrez, Mr. Koh, they are all so helpful and great people to talk to.

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8 students have been understanding of the weird situation we have been in. Teachers have been very helpful

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6

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Teacher support and students are doing a lot better than last year

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Hussey!!

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5: some days are more drowning than others

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6: the kids are mostly wonderful but the job otherwise feels more of a grind this year compared with last

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Consequences, even students have said there are no consequences

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5 things could be better, but things could also be worse! I am excited to work with a talented group of teachers, but overall we lack vison , organization, and cohesiveness. There is a serious lack of structure and systems need to be put in place ! Please make good use of our time in meetings! We need to produce, practice, and implement! Most organizations rate themselves and look to improve, how are we doing this? Where is the progress?

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3 assignments

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I finally received the technology I needed to teach in the classroom 

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I finally received the technology I needed to teach in the classroom 

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Ms. Harris, Ms. Baranwal, Ms. Salaam, Ms. Lee

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Ms. Harris, Ms. Baranwal, Ms. Salaam, Ms. Lee

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5 on a good day. Never really higher than five. Most of the time 1-3. Communication sucks, lack of support. Always looking forward to our days off. I love teaching but every school year seems to get harder.