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It's coming
We can't stop it
Teachers are worried
The emails keep coming.
Schedules in disarray
"I'll see you when it's over"
Resources stretched thin
How many students make a small group?
It's important to assess
It's important for planning,
for setting goals,
for knowing they are growing.
But yet
I wonder
How sitting in front of a computer screen
for 3 days in a row
Can help "them"
decide how much our students have
learned and grown and changed
into who they will be
some day.
Breathe in,
breathe out.
It will be over soon.
Your thoughts and reflections on testing are accurate. Your mantra is perfect. Keep reminding yourself! It will soon be over!
ReplyDeleteI dread these coming up for us in a few weeks. It will be over soon...thank goodness!
ReplyDeleteYour poem captures the stress but I'm so glad it ends with a reminder of calm - good for us, good for the kids. Keeping all kids and teachers in my heart, with calming thoughts, as we enter the season of testing.
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