Modern-Day Miracles

To heck with summer - we actually got a snow day today! Granted, Missouri schools would have never closed for such a wussy amount of white stuff - we didn't even get an inch of snow, and the streets are fine - but hey, who's complaining? ...especially when the skies and streets seemed to hold no chance of precipitation when I went to bed last night! ...especially when I was not even moderately close to having a coherent lesson plan for today. ...and especially after having a team meeting yesterday in which it was summarily implied that we should either shape up or reconsider teaching because we were ineffective teachers. After fighting high stress-levels and self-induced feelings of inadequacy, this slap in the face was hardly helpful. What was worse, no steps for improvement were given, even when directly requested. If what we have been doing is so clearly ineffective, how is telling us to 'continue doing what we've been doing' going to change anything?!

It's not that I disagreed with most of what was said - at least about my inadequacies as a teacher - but what good can come of undirected beratement?