Friday night three collegues and I left for a training workshop on bargaining which was sponsored by our union. The workshop was all day Saturday, and then we came back up to town on Saturday night. I am not good at budgeting, so I actually found a lot of it interesting, especially the part about the state's budget for education and how each school district calculates budgets. I was saddened and surprised to learn that Arizona ranks 50th of 50 states in per-student spending. To even reach "average" we would have to spend $2000 more per student. I later looked at the national results and see we are actually 49th of 50 (Utah is the only state lower.)

Anyway I got to attend two breakout sessions. The first was on creating polls that are professional and pertinent to what we want to learn from our staff. The second was on creating an agreement between the school board and the staff on how the budget is to be spent. (Our school district did away with meet-and-confer, so we at present have no way of airing our wishes/needs to the board.) Although I was very sleepy, I did enjoy both sessions and I learned quite a bit. I will have to practice the poll making, as I am secretary of our local and I can see that particular task devolving to me.

I will also likely be going to a "meet the legislators" day early next month (if the school approves my leave) and will have an opportunity to ask questions of our state representatives. I don't usually consider myself all that politically active, so this is a step out of my comfort zone. Just don't expect to see me running for political office any time soon.

Today I have been having trouble with my school gradebook program. The techie is supposed to come in and fix the program, but until he does, I can't input grades or print out reports. So annoying.

I haven't had time to do much writing lately. I think I might have gotten in 100 words or so last week. I hope to get more time after we get grades out next week.

My weight is the same as before the weekend, but on the good side, my sugars were in normal ranges. So yay for small improvements.

And the quiz for the day:

Your Attitude is Better than 75% of the Population

You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you.