Leadership Frustrations

Today I became frustrated with leadership. I currently serve two roles on the school's leadership team and one of them has become increasingly frustrating. I serve as grade level chair for my team and my team is currently located in modular classrooms. We have more students than we had last school year which has put some pressure on the cafeteria staff and has also caused some issues with scheduling. The principal has spoken to me about potentially shortening some class periods in order for the students to get to lunch, lockers, restroom and back to class all within a certain amount of time. It is frustrating because one of the things that she mentioned was actually one of the things that we have written about in this course which is protecting instructional time. While I was having a conversation with my principal, I totally understand her point but on the other hand I'm not really seeing any viable options that we can put into place with respect to the location of the module classrooms and the proximity to the nearest restroom and in proximity to the lockers and to the cafeteria. I am not so sure that the plan was going to work.

Today was one of those days where I just wanted to go inside of my classroom and teach and just deal with students. I didn't want to deal with any grown people. It just became frustrating for me because I felt like this should have been a decision made by the administrative team and not the teachers. I mean, I don't know I just wanted to be left alone. On the other hand, as an aspiring school administrator I am sure that administrators have these types of days where they just want to do their job and carry out their responsibilities and not be bothered by things that don't necessarily have to do with what they are what they're prioritizing to do. I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle this as a school administrator. I know that is something that I have to do and that I must do as a school administrator but today is was one of those days where it was just all just overwhelming and too much and I just felt like that I was being involved with too much.