This year, I changed school districts. I am one of the cross-categorical intervention specialists at the middle school I’m currently teaching. This means I have a homeroom. My students either stay in my room during the whole day or go out for portions of the day.

There are a total of 8 students. 3 of them are in the room full-time.

Of the remaining 5:

1. One is only in my room for half of the day.
2. Two of them go out for an art class.
3. Two go out for access, which is a sort of homeroom and social studies.
   • One of those two also goes out for a special and lunch.

So this week, I have been working on revamping the schedule I’ve had since late August. Lunch, science, and cooking all had to be changed. One of my students has his science changed to me just teaching him while his classmates each lunch. He eats lunch with his same-grade peers.

One of my students did not come back to school yesterday. So she was completely confused when she came back because the schedule had changed.

The one nice thing is there is now a block of time for two of the students who do not leave my room to go and walk throughout the building.

Oh, and there’s a new student in my class. I’m changing how we do math because not everyone is learning new skills. Some students are confused, and absences are holding us back. The good news is that we haven’t changed how we teach reading.

What have you been working on this week?

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