{"id":1186,"date":"2010-09-02T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2010-09-02T18:46:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:46:18","slug":"things-i-like-about-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/things-i-like-about-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Like About My Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a great first week so far!\u00c2\u00a0 As I walk to and from school every day, I have time to really think about what I appreciate.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a partial list in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking to work every day (it&#8217;s about a mile, so not too far, but it lets me get my head on straight)<\/li>\n<li>Seven days of paid orientation, department meetings, and planning time before the first day of classes<\/li>\n<li>A week-long professional development conference for all new faculty about classroom management and how to run a fabulous advisory program<\/li>\n<li>Block schedule (fewer, longer classes)<\/li>\n<li>Recess and snack every day for all middle-schoolers!<\/li>\n<li>First day middle-school assembly was filled with laughter<\/li>\n<li>Canoeing down the Mississippi with the eighth grade on the third day of school!<\/li>\n<li>Conferences with advisees and their families on the fourth day of school<\/li>\n<li>I have only received two things in my physical mailbox since I started&#8230; everything else is handled via e-mail and various on-line tools.<\/li>\n<li>Delicious, healthy food at the cafeteria every day (for students <em>and<\/em> faculty)<\/li>\n<li>First faculty meeting had only one item on the agenda: discussing specific, individualized strategies for helping students who struggled last year get off to a good start<\/li>\n<li>Twice-monthly meetings with my principal already scheduled from now until May<\/li>\n<li>Did I mention recess and snack??!?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a great first week so far!\u00c2\u00a0 As I walk to and from school every day, I have time to really think about what I appreciate.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a partial list in no particular order: Walking to work every day (it&#8217;s about a mile, so not too far, but it lets me get my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/things-i-like-about-my-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things I Like About My Job<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}