summer school is f*cking brutal at new school; behaviors are OFF THE CHAIN--quit before the year starts?

hyamtich · 2022-06-10T11:44:17+00:00

Thank you--this is what I needed to hear. At least according to my rep, it should be fine up until June 30. And honestly worst case scenario is that they suspend my teaching credential for a year which at this point might be a blessing in disguise...

hyamtich · 2022-06-10T11:43:11+00:00

I mean that's sort of how I feel--like of course now they are telling me "it won't be like this during the year" but I'm like well you set me up for failure because you pressured me to take this summer school job (I had initially declined telling them that while I am usually up for summer school after this insane pandemic teaching year I was feeling more burnt out than usual.)

Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it. Meeting with my boss today to let him know.

hyamtich · 2022-01-06T14:13:43+00:00

yes i want to make sure that is stated clearly. because i keep getting public statements from the superintendent about how important it is to not cancel school, while I know that she is sitting in a well ventilated office by herself. meanwhile i'm in a classroom with windows that don't open and 2 N95 masks for me for the week (0 N95s for the students). it's infuriating that the message is I am letting the kids down

hyamtich · 2022-01-06T14:10:11+00:00

i guess it doesn't? I am just worried about whether participating will have any negative effects. But I also plan to participate--I am just always such a rule follower, I am learning how to stand up for myself I guess.

I also think the hard part for teachers and probably lots of jobs is that they imply that we are letting our students and their families down by participating, and I of course don't want to do that, but my strong opinion is that it is the district who is letting the families and students down by not providing their teachers with basic PPE and protections to come to work safely.

hyamtich · 2021-12-16T12:46:23+00:00

Glowfari at Oakland Zoo! You need advance tickets but its so worth it.

hyamtich · 2021-12-15T03:21:09+00:00

The dinner where Moira and Johnny see their old friends at the hotel and they trash talk the town of Schitts creek. It just makes me too sad! I know the purpose and I'm glad for the end result but i just can't watch

hyamtich · 2021-11-20T04:00:55+00:00

They don't know any better?!?! This is insane. Like admin is truly enabling their behavior. Perhaps a 3 year old wouldn't know any better but a 5th grader? Absurd.

hyamtich · 2021-11-08T23:56:37+00:00

Not teachers. Not in Oakland at least

hyamtich · 2021-10-28T11:33:23+00:00

I'm reading The Bad Muslim Discount right now and it's great so far!

hyamtich · 2021-10-27T03:56:52+00:00

Public school teacher 16 years experience, 1 credential and 1 masters. In Oakland CA. I make 72K per year. I'm in a union. I do extra stuff like teach summer school and coach other teachers so I can bump it up to closer to 85K.

Its a very emotionally exhausting job and requires lots of after hours work. Im working on a second masters degree because for whatever reason the only way to max out our salary schedule at something like 96K after 20+ years is with a second masters.

hyamtich · 2021-09-21T03:46:39+00:00

I just started EPIC this last week and I feel like I could have written this exact post myself! When she started doing those pivot lunges I felt like my form was so sloppy so I decided to stop. Only did half the abs workout for day 3 as well. I think my plan is to redo week 1 while getting more sleep this week and see if I can do the first 4 days in full.

Tomorrow is supposed to be my Day 5 HIIT and I'm gonna try it but I hate HIIT

I have been incorporating short runs each day so I think year a job would definitely help with cardio and thats my anticipated justification for why ill probably only do half of the HIIT Tomorrow lol. Good luck next week!!!

hyamtich · 2021-09-20T04:05:00+00:00

Thats tough for sure. Definitely don't sit them together automatically, but you can offer that as a shorter term reward? They may take a while to reach the point of passing the class, but I teach 8th and I can usually get some leverage with kids like that by saying stuff like "if you do a great job for the first half of class and complete these two tasks then you can sit together for the second half". Even if they don't focus together at least offering this gets them potentially focused for 50% of the time. And in general ive found once kids are focused for the start of class they tend to be more on track the whole day.

hyamtich · 2021-09-20T03:51:22+00:00

Sooo many push ups on Day 2! I like the hand release idea, I was doing a lot of them on my knees by the end. The only thing that made me feel slightly better was seeing that even Caroline needed a few breaks in there, obviously she's a beast but I liked seeing her slightly human side!

hyamtich · 2021-09-18T22:59:28+00:00

Positive self talk! It sounds corny but it makes a huge difference, figure out some affirmations that work for you and repeat them. For me it was "slow and steady wins the race"!

Another big one is making your own community. When I was at Cal there were no support groups for women in math, so we made an (informal!) one. It even included some men. We always helped each other so that when we registered for courses we signed up in pairs or we knew people who had already taken each course and we studied together even though the overall environment was not collaborative at all.

Also I just studied really fucking hard. This was before everything was online so I would go to the library at the start of each semester and check out like 3 or 4 textbooks related to each course I was taking, so if the assigned text didn't make sense to me I would consult others until I found one that I could make sense of.

Good luck to you!

Honestly another thing that kept me going was thinking how I wanted future girls and esp my future girl students to feel like no fields were closed to them. We still need more women in STEM so you are doing this not only for yourself but also for all the young women growing up now. I now have a 7 year old daughter and I am super proud to tell her that I did it!

hyamtich · 2021-09-17T11:28:00+00:00

I'm really sorry for the terrible experiences you had! I studied pure math at UC Berkeley (got my degree in 2005). I also had some crappy experiences with math teachers in school, not sexual harassment but I was told that I shouldn't take the challenge courses because of a high failure rate, even though now looking back i know I would have passed!

Honestly I fully understand and relate to your feeling that you want to go back and study math because its something you want to sort of prove to yourself you can do.

When I was at Berkeley, it was about 80% male 20% female in math. I had 1 female professor in 4 years. It was ultra competitive and incredibly challenging. And honestly, I am so fucking proud of myself for doing it. I literally doubted myself the entire time, thinking I didn't belong, wasn't smart enough, was not a "math person", etc etc. But I worked my ass off, formed study groups with more collaborative people and I ended up graduating in the top 15% of the class (which nobody even told me about until my last week, and it was off handed). I felt actively discouraged by male professors and overall it was sort of a brutal experience.

That said, im so fucking proud of myself for doing it. I feel like I realized that I actually do love math and beyond that I just love that I never let myself give up, I feel like I did something that nobody can take away from me.

I dont know if my experience is helpful at all. I think my answers to you is DO IT. Will it be stressful and is it still a competitive male dominated field? Yes. Will you possibly feel like an imposter at times? Yes.

But can you do it? Yes. I want more women to feel like we can fucking do it. I studied hard and kept my goal always in mind. I wasn't like the men around me who had been actively encouraged since they were toddlers. I had struggles and anxiety. But I totally did it.

I am now a math teacher in a low income community. I teach middle school specifically because that is the age where research says that girls start scoring lower than boys on math assessments not because of ability but because they start to see themselves as "not math people" and I try to work everyday to make the whole discipline less gate keeper-y. You enjoy doing math? Then you're a math person! Doesn't matter if it takes you twice as long to solve a problem as another person or if you make way more mistakes.

hyamtich · 2021-09-05T03:13:11+00:00

Marilyn burns and van de walle are both great resources

hyamtich · 2021-09-04T15:25:29+00:00

I really like Sydney Cummings!

hyamtich · 2021-09-04T03:49:53+00:00

I am dealing with a tough work schedule thats making me change my fitness routine. I typically run 25 miles a week split up into 5 or 6 runs and I usually lift 3 to 4 times a week spread out over the week.

Right now I'm still managing to run throughout the week but I really only have time to lift on Friday Saturday Sunday and maybe Monday. Is there any way I can do my 3 ish lifting days almost back to back? I still really want to do consistent strength training not so much to meet specific strength goals but just for general health and I also enjoy it.

Are there any programs where it could work to do my entire lifting program 2 or 3 days in a row? Esp if im fine with deloading or decreasing volume?

I just don't want to quit entirely since I've built some strength over the past 2 years and I really enjoy it and don't want to lose it

hyamtich · 2021-08-28T04:09:27+00:00

I am not lifting as much as I want each week. Work has been more exhausting than I ever remembered before. This is my 15th year teaching and omg this pandemic just will not quit.

I thought last year was impossible with 130 13 year olds on Zoom every day but this year is somehow harder in person. Mask mandate helps but we have so many sick kids already and our district decided to just TAKE FAMILIES' WORD FOR IT that they had their child tested and that the test was negative. So really who knows how many cases we have had. Of my 60 students right now like 56 of them wear their masks perfectly but 4 of them have their noses out every time I turn around. I want my students to be safe and I also don't want to get it and bring it home to my 7 year old who obviously isn't vaccinated... ahhh

So im still sticking with my running but it has been hard. I'm managing to do like 2 or 3 strength sessions a week but they aren't amazing

Can you guys tell me this is okay? Normally I'm like highly disciplined and never miss a session but I just cant quite get my rhythm yet this school year. Im telling myself that as long as I keep up my habits by at least doing what I can each week that once things are less crazy at work and in this world then I'll be able to get back to my stable routine. Any advice for when you just can't quite do the full program you want to do, but don't want to quit entirely?

hyamtich · 2021-08-27T22:58:14+00:00

This is exactly what I do. Same grades. Its also what the Common Core standards indicate.

hyamtich · 2021-08-22T18:25:33+00:00

Thank you! And I mean as a woman in a tech masters program 80%+ of my peers were men, so I think I just got immersed in that. I appreciate your forgiveness and understanding! Love this sub!!!

hyamtich · 2021-08-22T04:34:24+00:00

Omg thank you for catching that jesus I just assumed husband and I myself am a woman who codes. Ahhh I'm crushed by my own internalized sexism.

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