March(first half)

10th
Since my administrator has been out of the district for so long, I decided I needed to try to work some hours in elsewhere.  I sat and observed one of the middle school science teachers today.  I am going to observe some others using an evaluation form and see how it is done.
11th
I observed one of the middle school math teachers today. He uses kinesthetic learning for graphing, it was very cool to see how he does this. We have the luxury of having an empty "project room" across the hall from his classroom so he has "taped" a graph on the floor. When he wants to kids to do coordinates he has them stand where they should, it was very neat and a great way to show that he is teaching for all learning styles.
I worked with Mr. Roch today for a while. We had a meeting with a parent who is also a middle school math teacher. She was concerned about some of the things they are doing at the high school in ISS.  They have decided to give the kids that are in ISS a different meal than the one that the other students get. The sad part is, it's just bread and cheese and some fruit. She said that in a district and town like ours that meal might be some of those students' only meal and we should not use food deprivation as punishment. I agree with her. She is going to research other alternatives to get ISS to work and I volunteered as an intern to help her out.
12th
Since my administrator was gone.....again. I went to the elementary school and worked with Tonya Hodges. She is the principal for the 3-5 side of the elementary. Since we are getting ready for testing she put me to work getting packets and things together, she also had me doing some other things in the office. After I finished this I worked on the ISS research.
15th
During my prep I worked on some ISS research and went down to meet with the teacher who is helping me about it.  I also went to the admin building where Mr. Roch led a meeting for those staff that did not get to go through the test security training during the in-service. After that I worked on ISS some more and then went to a board meeting. It was a good meeting, they talked about the building projects and how they are going to have to cash in some bonds to pay for some of it. Mr. Roch also shared that by the end of next year Tucumcari will lose $314,000 in operational money and another $80,000 the next year.
16th
During my prep I continued to work on ISS research.
After school I went to the high school to sit in on a scheduling meeting. What a bear. The sad part is that at a school this size, it's not as difficult to make sure every class is covered, at a school the size I want to be, it is a pain in the butt to make sure that you get all the cores and some electives in so that each kid has a choice at some point in the day. That was very interesting.
After that meeting I had a Quality Council meeting where we talked about data and the goal teams progress on things that need to be done by the end of the year.
All in all, since I haven't done anything else, this has been a pretty good month so far.