Wk 6 - Day 24

today was a teacher's professional development day...no students. this morning was spent going over the school's mission statement, a reading assessment...that all staff are required to do and they were shown how to do it, and a memory game held in the gym that had topics like; best practices, grants, reading assessment, etc. the rest of the day was spent doing prep. teachers are complaining that there isn't enough time to do prep, but yet they are spending a lot of time complaining about the administration and what's been happening to their insurance plan and other topics. i'm not going to go into details, but i do totally understand what their complaints are and i think the complaints are justified. i'm not in a position to do anything as a guest in this school other than watch, listen, and be supportive where i can. the morale of the staff is very low at this point and continues to lower.