“I jotted down every time a little bit of my teaching time was taken away… It ended up being over 9,000 minutes of my regular teaching time… over 30 days of teaching.”
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What was described
Logged every interruption to teaching time (e.g., drills, meetings, snow days) on a chart throughout the school year
9,000 minutes total, equivalent to over 30 instructional days
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