Earlier Monday Morning
Good Morning … this is me … we’re holding a fuzzy baby kitty and thinking of going in the kitchen for coffee. Yup … coffee won out. We turned on some music too.We’ve only got a half hour to write. Then it’s into the shower. Likely then that it is 5:30 am. AHA! Yup Yup. This morning we set the timer, but still had to give up a half an hour to the parts of us that like to see the star stuff and news first thing. But, we don’t want to go into that besides saying this tiny baby town near Atlanta ran out of water … I think that’s the beginning of a very big bad thing.
But, that’s nothing that I’m directly a part of. Just got to try staying aware that some terrible cyclone-type stuff happening out there. It’s not usual for people to run out of water.
I want to skip to some work stuff, because I won’t have time to write about it proper later this morning. This is the day of the all-day first aid, except from 10-11 am we’ll be doing thinking group. Hmm, or is that 11:30 am. I better check.
This is also Sr.’s last day because she is going to be gone all next week to that retreat we mentioned yesterday. Yesterday was emotionally hard for me at the meeting, because she spent a good deal of time at the admin meeting discussing. I always have a tough time with Holly when sister is gone. She starts like moving around and using the loud speaker and such when Sr. is gone. It’s supposed to be business as normal, but she likes giving the impression she’s in charge. Sr. state emphatically that its everyone taking care of their own business that is what works. As to being officially in charge, Sr. Margaret Mary will be around. Not all the time, but she’s the one that makes the big decisions. I think that’s just fine. I don’t want any extra problems I just want to be doing my thing. It’s probably best in that regard to keep pretty much to my own office, the work of being in the classrooms better wait until the week after Sr. returns. I don’t want putting the DSPs in a direct position of not having anyone to be going to, in case I cause them too much grief.
But, that’s the other thing I wanted to mention this morning. During the Programmatic part of the admin meeting when Rich asked if there was any news, we brought up our work on the Chronological notes. I explained it the best I could in about 3-4 minutes. I gave Sr. and Holly a copy because I’d shown it already to Rich and Candice. Holly of course started sputtering, and Sr. took a few moments getting it because she was trying to find the copy I’d given her on evaluating the DSP. I knew that it was going to be too long and detailed, but since then, we figured out this other thing – the one where we use the Paper Tiger. During time that I wasn’t at meetings, I worked on the chart. I’ve done 3 clients now and tidied it up a lot by the idea to put in the domains and program areas. That helped clear it up a lot.
The big deal part is that Sr. seemed to approve the project … I am only thinking that because she did not take it down. I only pushed on the DSPs to be having me in the room to be taking notes and cleaning up their chronological notes. That didn’t seem to be bad. I would like to say she’s more behind the project in that she didn’t look at it too long. But, then on the other hand she underlined the statement I had made on needing some method or system of being in the rooms that was unobtrusive. I also scored the part where before I was looking directly at the staff where this time, I was looking at the program goals. I also stressed that this system was leading out of the staff’s work without making them change. I wanted some way to come up with the big picture and this would be like finding it from what they are already doing instead of changing something from the outside.
That’s what makes this such a good system. We also stated in and through Sr. that this was something that could be done holistically at a lot of centers. This was an idea that could be improved and sold. Sr. gave me a thumbs up there … I told you you should publish something. Hehehe well mostly like that. I think it sounded more like a complaint that I hadn’t already. That was the second time this week I got hit with it. She brought in a book this week by an old parent from one of her other locations that had written a book. It was again a direct statement on people publishing.
I guess I’ve had that in my mind ever since Rich brought up program directing at Abraham Lincoln. I think all those ideas are good to keep me honest, but in reality it is something that has to be studied and then as we are thinking at 1:30 up time in the morning … maybe something that has to get some kind of copyright over.
Somehow there has to be a system between me and Paper Tiger, but then I think you don’t have to get permission from Microsoft if I write the program from their stuff. Hmm, Just I think Paper tiger is small enough and their problems still being worked through in design that if you were going to use their system – you would want co-communication. I think they could use my work for publicity. BUT, again we’re way ahead of the horse. Right now it’s time to be in the shower and with a big *sigh* we’re heading there. We just want to be writing. That being said for the record, I am on my way to the shower begrudgingly *Double Sigh*
posted by Ann Marie @ 11/02/2007 04:54:00 PM
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