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>> My name is Jennifer Aikme [assumed spelling].

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I am a middle school instructional
coach in Tennessee.

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It involves a lot of collaboration.

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There will be a lot of planning with teachers.

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Being -- always being a life-long learner.

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Making sure that you are -- you know,
I have to prepare and know strategies,

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to know what will work best
with different teachers.

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I usually get to school about 6:45.

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School starts around 8:00.

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Morning time is my time to get my stuff done.

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I get there -- as a special ED teacher, I would
work on IEP's, you know, prepare for the day,

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if I have, you know, those coming up.

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Then I would make sure my day -- I
had everything ready for the day.

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Which could mean making copies of
something that I'm using in the classroom.

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You know, passing out materials
before the students get there.

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Arranging the desks into the groups,
with whatever activity we're doing.

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It could mean a meeting with a professional
learning community of teachers to plan

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out something that we're going to be doing.

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It could mean working -- I
was a mentor to a new teacher.

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So, I could meet with that
new teacher during that time.