FINAL HOURS

As the year has come to a close, I want to share with you my final data from the 2012-13 school year.

Total official work days in the 12-13 school year:

175 student contact days
14 extra days of professional development (including 2 conference days and 2 training days during MEA)
189 total official work days

Number of hours I worked in the 12-13 school year:
Total: 2055.5
Average hours per day (based on a 5-day workweek): 10.3
Average hours per week (based on a 5-day workweek): 51.3

How does this compare to other full-time jobs??
If a person worked every single weekday, without taking any days off except weekends, they would work 2080 hours in 1 year (52 weeks x 40 hours = 2080 hours). Taking into account vacation time (let's say people get 2 weeks), their year-long workload is then reduced to 2000 hours. Now factor in holidays (Christmas, New Years, 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Presidents' Day, MLK Day, among others). Since many full-time workers don't get all of these days off, let's just say they get 6 extra days built into the year, which brings the work year down to 1952 total hours. That means that I worked 103.5 hours more than the average full-time worker who sticks to a strict 40-hour workweek. And that's NOT including anything worked during the summer (I will be recording those hours as well).

Other fun numbers from this last year:

22: Number of Saturdays I worked (out of 41 total)

38: Number of Sundays I worked (out of 41 total)

181: Number of hours I worked on weekends and holidays. 

77: Number of days I worked straight before taking my first day off (Nov. 4th)

5: Number of weeks I worked 60 hours or more.

4: Number of weeks I worked less than 40 hours (Thanksgiving, a week when I was sick 2 days, returning from winter break, final week when we had only 3 days). All of these days I worked around 30 hours.

491.5: Total hours of overtime throughout the year.

$510.50: Amount of my own money I have spent on school supplies this past year.

I thank everyone who has been following me this past school year. It has been a very fun experiment. I will be working this summer to develop next year's curriculum, and will record those hours as well. I will write a final blog post at the end of the summer before I start the next school year. Have an awesome summer, and don't forget to THANK YOUR TEACHERS! They work hard! :)

WEEKS 39 & 40: Finishing the year

The last day with students was Tuesday, June 4th. Teachers in Minneapolis then had June 5th to finish up grading their finals, tearing down their rooms, and packing everything up. You'd think that tearing down your room wouldn't take that long, but it surprisingly takes most of the day to get everything down and where it needs to be.

During the last week of school, I had students sign my wall. I did this last year as well, and I think this will become a tradition. It's hard to read, but in black it says "La pared de exito" (The wall of success) and underneath it says "Yo sobrevivi la clase de Srta. K" (I survived the class of Srta. K")

Here are my hours for weeks 39:

Day	Date	Start	End	Total Hours
Sun	5/26/2013	12:30 PM	2:15 PM	1.75
M	5/27/2013	6:45 PM	9:00 PM	2.25
T	5/28/2013	7:30 AM	6:00 PM	10.5
W	5/29/2013	8:00 AM	4:30 PM	8.5
Th	5/30/2013	7:15 AM	6:30 PM	11.25
F	5/31/2013	7:00 AM	4:30 PM	9.5
Sat	6/1/2013			0
	Total			43.75

My hours for week 40 (only 2 days with students, 1 grading day):

Day	Date	Start	End	Total Hours
Sun	6/2/2013	9:00 PM	10:30 PM	1.5
M	6/3/2013	8:00 AM	4:30 PM	8.5
T	6/4/2013	8:15 AM	4:30 PM	8.25
W	6/5/2013	8:30 AM	4:30 PM	8
	Total			26.25