Pandemic School Year Stats

Last Friday was the last day of school.

If you have been with me for a while, you know that means it's time for my annual listing of what classes I covered this school year. And whoa, it's been a year like no other. But somehow, I managed to remain employed throughout it all (a statement that I am incredibly privileged to make). 

There are usually 180 school days, and according to the district calendar, it appears that we did, in fact, have 180 school days. I worked 152 of them. That's not quite up to my best year of 164 in the 2018-19 school year, but considering the year, it was very, very good.

Of those 152 days, I covered an extra period on... 3 of them. Because of how things were set up this year, working extra periods just wasn't that common, at least for subs. (The majority of extra period assignments went to full-time teachers.) 

110 of those days were virtual. 40 were days when we'd gone to the hybrid schedule (1 day a week was fully virtual--Wednesday--but the rest of the week we had students in the room and students online). The 2 remaining days were the transition from virtual to hybrid (we were on campus, but the students didn't have to log in to a meet). 

36 days I worked from campus with fully virtual classes. 63 days I worked from home. 11 days were fully virtual but I bounced between on campus and at home. (These were in the long-term I started off the year in, and it varied as to whether I was on campus or not.) 42 days I worked on campus with hybrid classes (or on Wednesdays with them all virtual). 

I spent 91 of those days in high school classes, 42 in middle school classes, 12 at the alternative education center (plus those days for their summer session, which I don't count as they're technically summer school), and only 7 days at the continuation high school.

I covered both the first day and the last day of school. 

Because of the nature of this school year, my individual subject breakdowns are skewed from a typical year. As always "extra periods" also contain when the teacher only taught one period of that subject, for example, if they were the cheer advisor or if they only taught one period of economics. (Of my 3 actual extra periods, 1 was chemistry, 1 was intro to health care, and 1 was graphic arts.) 

• English: 89 days
• Top class covered: 9th grade with 44 days. This is not surprising, as one of my long-terms was 9th grade, plus I did 3 weeks of 9th grade English as the special ed co-teacher while they interviewed for that position.
• Then was 8th grade with 33 days. 30 of those were that long-term I almost closed the year with.
• In 3rd place is 11th grade with 31 days and 1 extra period. That was also a long-term. (The teacher taught both 9th and 11th grades, so 30 of those days are for both.) 
• Rounding out the English classes: 2 days in 7th grade, 2 days and 2 extra periods in 10th grade, 2 days in 12th grade, and 1 extra period in English language development.
• Math: 39 days and 2 extra periods
• Integrated Math 1 (9th grade math) wins with 21 days and 1 extra period. This includes the alternative education center's class that I started off the year in (12 days) and the class I ended the year in (9 days). 
• 8th grade math is in 2nd place with 17 days and 1 extra period. Those were part of the special ed co-teach thing I did back in September.
• And 3rd place is Integrated Math 2 (10th grade math) with 12 days and 5 extra periods. The 12 days were the alternative education center's class, and the 5 extra periods were the last 9 days of school. (There was only one period of it, and I only had it every other day and Wednesdays.) 
• As for the rest: 2 days in 7th grade math, and 1 extra period of business math (that was a special ed class where she taught various classes throughout the day). 
• Science: 19 days and 2 extra periods
• The top class here was chemistry with 16 days and 1 extra period. 12 of those days were at the alternative education center.
• In 2nd place is biology with 14 days and 2 extra periods. Again, 12 of those days were with that class at the alternative education center.
• The only other science class I covered was the intro to health care careers, where I covered 1 full day and 1 extra period. 
• Social Studies: 18 days
• Top class here is U.S. History, with 12 days. Most of those were in December for the teacher who was out the last two weeks of the first semester.
• Next was government for 7 days. This was the same class I covered in December. He also taught one period of...
• Economics with 7 extra periods. 
• And finally, I covered 5 days of world history, most those at the continuation high school (but not all).
• Special Ed: 47 days
• I'm listing this last, as this overlaps with so many of the above classes. 
• 17 of these were in SDC classes, including the last two weeks of school and the last two weeks of the first semester.
• 2 were in severe classes, 1 with the visually impaired class, and 1 the day of our only earthquake drill.
• Miscellany
• 15 periods of cheer. This was when I did the long-term for the 9th and 11th grade English teacher. She was also the cheer advisor.
• 5 days of music. Band and choir.
• 4 days of French.
• 4 days of photography.
• 2 periods of athletics. Tennis.
• 1 period of graphic arts.

It was a different sort of year. But somehow we managed to make it through.

Previous years' stats:

• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010