This Week in Teaching

Today I went to a training for Synergy, my school district's attendance/grading program.  I've been teaching at Centennial for two years already, but when they sent out an email for new teachers to be trained on the program and said other teachers could come if they were interested, I signed up. The training was to begin at 9 a.m. in the computer lab in the library at Centennial.  I was glad for this because that's my school so I know where everything is.  One of the quirks of "professional development" (PD for short) offered by school districts is that they are offered at random places in the district, so sometimes I have no idea where to park, where the library is, or how to find a bathroom.  It's nice when those are not problems to take into consideration. The other quirk of district-led PD is that often it is offered by people who are not professional presenters, usually because professional presenters cost more money than just paying the regular salar...