Daily Schedule Monday-Thursday

4:45 Wake Up
5-6: Gym
6-6:45: Shower, make breakfast of eggs, veggie patties, and granola/yogurt (breakfast is the most important meal of the day), get on the road (usually carpool)
6:45-7:25ish: Commute
7:30: Arrive at School
8-8:45: Hunt down students and make sure they have done their homework from the night before, carry around photo copies of homework and extra pencils
8:45-9:30: Off period, usually working on other CY things, such as grant proposals, volunteer phone calls or inkinding
9:30-12:33: In class, working with students, tutoring them in math and doing plenty of behavior management and role modeling, I always make sure to have tons of extra sharpened pencils. I've started having students trade me. If I give them a pencil they have to give me something in return and at the end of the period we trade back. The things they give me vary from an inhaler, to a quarter, to a love note from their crush.
12:33-1:03: Lunch! Two days out of the week I have a behavior lunch club that meets and we talk about what it means to be a leader. The other days I either work on more CY stuff in our classroom or go around and make sure the kids from my afternoon classes have done their homework, once again, I make sure to carry around plenty of photocopies. Usually I don't have much time to eat so I end up eating most of my lunch during after school.
1:03-3:45 In class, see above.
3:45-4:00: About to transition into afterschool, usually I meet with one of the two teachers I work with and do a debrief about the day, I also do any last minute photo copying of worksheets or homework for students.
4:00-6:00: Afterschool program. I tutor a group of students, the group ranges between 3-17 students depending on how many show up. We also sometimes do clubs, sports club, art club and music/dance club. We also sometimes lead lesson plans to expose our students to something outside their regular world. Afterschool can be really hectic, and however it goes drastically affects how I view the entirety of my day.
6:00-6:30: Wait for all students to be picked up from afterschool
6:30: Final circle or two days a week head up to the classroom for a long meeting or inputting data. I either then head home or go back to the CY office to do committee work for either Recruitment or one of our other upcoming events.

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