I attended my first summer professional development session yesterday, and once again, I was less than impressed. What is it with this district? I hate being negative, so... let me first focus on the positive.
The actual session and presenter were actually quite exceptional (which is saying a lot). Our district has a new math textbook for next year, so the presenter was from the publishing company. He did a great job explaining the ins and outs of the new curriculum, and he did it such a professional manner. Kudos to that guy. He is a trooper.
I say that because he, along with the rest of his audience, had to endure excessive discomfort due to "climate-control" issues. I don't know what it is with this district and its inability to get air conditioners to actually condition the air. I've had this problem in my own school, a building less than 5 years old, as well. Its just unacceptable. At my session yesterday, I didn't actually hear the a/c turn on until around 9:30 (an hour and a half after the session began). And it never really cooled anything down. The common areas of the building were cool enough. I have no idea if the temperature problem was also going on in other rooms besides the one I was in, but I'm going to be extremely mad if I find out it was just happening in the room I was in. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that this was the case and that the idea to change rooms never occurred to anyone in charge.
I have another session at a different campus later this week. It promises to be excruciatingly boring. Here's to hoping that, at least, the air conditioner will be working.
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