School Counseling during Fall of 2020
Today was tough. I could end there and be content that I had explained enough... Rather than focus on the difficult day of getting an email at 9:30pm the night prior from my principal, saying to cancel all obligations up until 12:30pm so I could teach a 1st grade class the following day; setting aside my counseling duties, with the exception of meeting with a teacher regarding resources I assisted her with for a student needing behavioral and academic interventions before school, prior to reading post-it note lesson plans the teacher out left behind (not explaining how to access the three electronic platforms I needed to utilize, nor having all materials I needed to be successful); having the virtual teacher enter my room two minutes into the start day to question why the virtual students were not yet connected and complaining she would get multiple phone calls about this and wanted to field the calls (with me ignorantly thinking she was coming in to assist in the start of t...