AVReading

  A few years back, we had a thoughtful administrator who opened up our faculty meeting with an image of a street sign.  On the pole with the street sign, the city had posted six or seven other notices and ordinances which seemed almost absurd.  In some cases, the message on one sign seemed to contradict other messages on the same pole.  The administrator used this as a metaphor for districts, schools, and teachers that are not thoughtful about their choices.               Making thoughtful choices, however, is not as easy as one might think, especially under the circumstances that we are often expected to perform.  There are so many different duties and expectations placed upon teachers, and our schedules are so compressed, that the spaces in which we teach can sometimes feel more like emergency rooms than classrooms.  Just as we catch our breath from one prep, we must mov...