Audrey Watters who writes for Read Write Web and Hack Education recently asked to interview me for Hack Education. Audrey’s write-up of the interview is now available on Hack Education. One of the interview questions that didn’t make it into the final post was about how I balance teaching full-time and blogging so much. That’s a question I’m asked almost every time I do an interview. So I think it’s time that I post my working schedule. Here’s a typical weekday for me:
- 4:45am wake-up, make coffee, walk the dog, check email, moderate blog comments, write a blog post, get ready for school, drive to school (35 minutes).
- 7:25am – 2:00 (once or twice a week this extends to 2:45 for meetings) at school I teach 3/4 of the day with 1/4 for planning. That 1/4 is when I do a lot of lesson planning, gradebook updates, and all the other “stuff” teachers have to do. A lot of my lesson planning also happens when I’m driving to and from school. The 35 minute drive is a great quiet time to let my mind wander.
- 3:15ish – Walk the dog, check the snail mail, cat nap on a good day.
- 4:15ish – 6:15ish writing blog posts, reading RSS feeds, replying to email
- 6:15 – 7:00 Dinner, I do all the cooking in our house.
- 7-8:30 (sometimes later, but usually my brain is mush by 8:30) writing, reading RSS feeds, replying to email.
- 8:30-9ish mindless TV on the couch.
- 9-9:30 take the dog out, read a few pages in a book, go to sleep.
