what kind of professional development does your district provide you?

Are you a mid-level producer at a New York agency and you love it and feel like you have great professional guidance and opportunities? Please, tell me where you work! (cont’d)

Iceland in Mid April
1) recommended with a 2.5 year old?
2) hotels to stay in - any good Marriott properties?
3) must do

Has anyone taken the CDFA exam? Is it difficult? How much time did you devote to studying in order to pass?

Left Accenture 10 years ago... can someone remind me what the ESPP offering period(s) were and when stock was purchased? Was it 1 or 2 offering periods per year? And what were the months of each?

Any actually good prime day deals to grab?

Happy fly day. Did you work out this morning?

Is it possible to get from hedge fund tax into finance in anyway?

Anyone here into ice climbing and/or backcountry skiing? Looking for new partners this season. Have a car and happy to drive!

Why is it that a lot of couples I know living in big cities are in open relationship?

Is 49,000 a fair starting salary for a scientist 1 with a B.S in biology in Philadelphia?

I am on bench from 1 nov 2022. I am PA.

I am in self-contained. Our students are never sent home even tho they are obviously ill. Only projectile vomiting sends a student home. So then we staff get sick because of our close contact, toileting, etc, and have to use our sick days and then run out of sick days. Anyone else experiencing this?

Just out of curiosity, are any Paraeducators (or teachers) working on transitional goals with their students? I work with the sped population and I just started working with high school student. I’m looking for outside resources to teach my students independent living skills. This is a new area for me and any guidance would be helpful!

Does your district offer professional development that is relevant to your job?
What would you like to see more of?

I am in a self-contained cross category room. Grades 2-4. We have kiddos who need to be placed in therapeutic schools but those schools are understaffed due to Covid — their staff found other jobs during the shutdown—and so can’t take them. Several of our kids are huge. I have been slammed hard on the back, chased around the room to hit me, kicked, bitten, clawed, hair pulled. Is anyone else experiencing heightened behaviors?

How do we feel about sped aides constantly being on their phones when with students? It’s pervasive in our building and is driving me crazy. Yes there are down times but this is beyond that. Am I expecting too much as a fellow aide for everyone to be as engaged as I am?

Our principal does not want we 1:1 aides at IEP meetings for our student. The mother of my student had to insist I be included. I was ignored at the meeting until the mother said, I’d like to hear from Sarah. Anyone else experience this?

Do you get pulled to sub? Can ypu refuse? How much extra do you get paid?

We paras are in a cross-category self-contained autism/BD/LD/ED grades 2-4. We are hit, scratched, kicked. We are 6 adults and 10 kids. We work 8:30-3:30. Half hour lunch and no breaks. Is this typical? Short lunch and no breaks?

Hi. So have you had covid cases and the admin doesn’t tell the staff who was exposed. We have 4. And I found out through coworkers and I’m high risk