Dan Hale has been a teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools for 20 years, but he's never felt or seen his colleagues as overwhelmed as they are today.
He used to know his students as readers and as writers, he says; now he only knows them as bits of data or ECART scores; pacing points and percentages.
And after spending far more than eight hours at school, he leaves (with work in tow) thinking 'What am I doing tomorrow?' ' planning time in the context of the school day, he says, is nearly nonexistent.
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