The school year by the numbers

days of school left = 36

hours left = 270

snow days this year = 5
days with changes in the schedule = more than 20

deep breaths taken = 5, 693,842

pieces of chocolate & other sweet treats given to me by my friend Julie = numerous 

field trips taken = 2
field trip planned = 1, to the zoo, because one student has never been to one 

students who left my class and returned to their country = 3
new students throughout the year in ELL = 9 
hours spent testing new students = 36 

size of my class in September = 4 
size in January = 2
size in March = 8 

discipline reports filed = 1

nights I stayed up too late watching Game of Thrones = at least 10 
nights I woke up at 3 AM with the solution to a problem = 53
cups of coffee downed = at least 140

kids of my own leaving middle school = 1

kids of my own coming to middle school = 1

tears I will shed at each of their graduation ceremonies = gajillions

artifacts uploaded to my Learning Plan "Oasys" = 5 
time spent figuring out My Learning Plan "Oasys" website and how to upload artifacts = 3 hours
time spent pondering why it's called "Oasys" = 15 minutes

time I have spent wondering about other acronyms such as DIP, SIP, PNAS, AIMS, MCAS, PARCC, TAB, RETELL and EH = way too much

time spent writing goals, meeting goals, writing up if I met the goals, and tracking my progress = ummmmm....

time teaching my awesome students = 700 (ish) hours 

things an administrator said something that really resonated with me or that I really believed in = 1

minutes spent commiserating, collaborating, learning from, teaching, helping or just venting to my colleagues / times I belly laughed with my colleagues /times my students made me laugh / mistakes made / lessons learned  = 
too many to count