school teacher

teacher

elementary school teacher

special education teacher

assistant

Spring Independent School District

A typical day at work was arriving to the warehouse, clocking in, going to the pre-work huddle, logging into your RF scanner, checking the previous days orders for accuracy, loading your truck, doing your pre-trip inspection, and making your deliveries in a 26ft box truck.

Once your deliveries were complete (almost always before 1pm) you arrive back to the warehouse, clean out your truck, remove the pallets, trash, and return carts, grab your RF scanner and start picking orders for the next day.

Generally, there was always enough time to sweep the floors and pickup/take out trash at the end of the day.

What did I learn? I learned the different routes and campuses within Spring ISD and all of the shortcuts to get around.

Management. My supervisor was a fantastic guy and was the type of guy that always had your back. I would say that in my 24 years of working, he was the best supervisor I've ever had. Upper management? Not so much.

The workplace culture was surprisingly good, at least in our department. I had previously worked for HISD and it was an absolute nightmare. At Spring ISD, in my experience, everyone got along really well.

The hardest part of the job? I think the hardest part of the job was waiting six weeks to get my first paycheck. I lived on the other side of town and the commute was pretty terrible. I would also say that upper management has absolutely no chill whatsoever. I'm a parent and I live 30 miles away from the jobsite. Following COVID, the schools were being extremely overprotective and would constant call for me to come pick up my kids from school. Granted, it's not their fault but they threatened my job over having to leave work to get my kids.

Then, to make matters worse, they claimed that they had this paycheck assistance program to help new employees to get by until their get their check. I was supposed to get a significant amount and only received a fraction, I called out that day and was immediately told that I was being put on probation. I just resigned instead.

I would also add that one of the hardest parts of the job was turning down jobs all across Houston that offered better pay. Drivers with a CDL in Houston can make up to or better than $25/hr. At Spring ISD, I believe the entry level pay is something crazy like $14/hr. I made $19/hr and it was low.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the people that I worked with in the warehouse, the relationship that I had with my supervisor, and the relationships that I had formed with the ladies at each campus I made deliveries to. Despite really bad upper management, those particular relationships made the job really fantastic.  

Staff morale is poor and embittered. High stakes environment. Students are disengaged, underachieving, and unruly. Working environment is sub-standard due to buildings not being maintained properly inside and out, and unsafe due to poor student and teacher discipline strategies. Internet and intranet is unreliable. Lack of adequate funding and poor appropriation of funds causing students to miss out on educational resources, activities, and quality extracurriculars. Understaffed and overstaffed at the same time, making employees both apathetic and lazy. Lack of efficiencies everywhere. Paperwork nightmare. Paraprofessionals are neglected by the district in the way that their time is utterly being wasted during professional development days sitting through lectures that don’t apply to them when their attendance is mandatory.  How can it be that here is never a program offering collaboration time, nor any targeted learning of useful information planned for them ever? Work life balance doesn’t exist unless you are paraprofessional, office staff, or a Special Ed teacher. Teachers aren’t respected in general for all the work they do. Burn out rate is high. Administrators and District personnel just create a facade of leadership by telling teachers, parents, and the public what they want to hear without any follow through.

I was a long-term sub and a full time certified teacher and the issue that I have is there is absolutely no difference in what you are expected to do but a huge difference in the pay. I don't think it's fair to pay a long-term sub half of what you would pay a certified teacher when the expectations are the same. I understand that they can't get the same pay but it should be more attractive. It can be cold sometimes but my team that I worked with was awesome. The students are on another level so to work there, you have to have some grit or you will not survive there. Insurance is expensive, not attractive at all and it's not a family environment. If you are used to working for a company that embodies closeness and friendliness, look elsewhere. You will only find a few people that you can actually connect with and it will be your grade level team, more than likely. I enjoyed working with the students and would do it again because they are the reason I endured, although the behavior is sometimes unbearable, I found a way to be happy.

I learned in the 8 plus years in Spring Independent School District how to be a professional first and foremost. I also learned how to meet deadlines, think outside the box, and expand the boundaries of learning. I learned to be a team player, and work well with others.
I never approached work as a "job", it was more of something that I had to do. My dedication and passion was by far the most enjoyable part of the job. Its hard to work in this field, and not be passionate about what you do. It was rewarding to see a student leave me, and end up graduating from a 4 year college or university. The hardest part of the job, of course, is the pressure to perform on the state exams. The funding for the school district depended on these scores. Teachers and administration pay sometimes depended on how well the students scored.

I taught United States History- 1492 - 1877/ Reconstruction. We learned new information daily. Our days were always challenging because the material was brand new and this subject was/is tested yearly, on the STAAR test. I learned that creativity is paramount in our lesson planning, and assessment was required daily. I worked very closely with my management team, to ensure best practices, and garner student success. My co-workers were very supportive and knowledgeable. The hardest part of my job was time allotment for each objective. Flexibility / re-teaching of non- mastered objectives at times was cumbersome, however necessary. The most enjoyable part was student mastery of daily objectives. Students were most productive when they were successful.

A typical day at work was greeting the students as they come in the classroom and unpack, going over the agenda and reiterating the class/school expectations of both the teacher and the students, covering the objective and ELPs of the skill for the day, do my 15-20 min Mini Lesson, go over each Rotation Station, show students where they will be working for their Reading Workshop and what students I will need to see in small group and remind the students of the our Reading Workshop Rules and why they are important to follow them.

They hardest part of the day is when you know a student can do something or understand a skill--only of he/she will just have an open mind and try the strategies that has been taught them.

My most enjoyable part of the day is when a student final gets the concept of a skill that they have been struggling to learn and demonstrate mastery. Their glow and smiles on their faces is priceless!

Spring Independent School District works at preparing students for success in college, career and life. The District takes pride in always improving and evolving, including strengthening and expanding its special education and gifted and talented services as well as its award-winning performing and visual arts program to serve even more students.

The most challenging part of the district is meeting the students needs who experience difficulties of life outside of the district walls. Students now have to deal with so many other factors in society.

The most enjoyable part of the job was seeing all students reach success in the classrooms.

The salary attempts to cover the high turnover. Communication, expectations, and management are all sub-par. Kids stole my phone twice, supplies, and my car, police did nothing. Teachers get assaulted by students and there are few repercussions. Administration is hypocritical and unsupportive of good classroom management. They care for little except keeping attendance high during the "money period." The kids have noticed and feel uncared for. No complaints about other teachers, they're friendly, most of them. There IS a race problem. Another teacher and I faced ableism. I put in many extra hours overcoming systemic disorganization and miscommunications. 10% failure rate, happens to coincide with truancy rate. Admins encourage passing students that are present. I could write essays, I'll stop here.

As a Teacher, we are also Trainers. Trainers of students and adults. Teachers are extremely dedicated employees, with a passion to educate. Teachers are Trainers and can accomplish more in a day than most people. Teachers are always multitasking, coordinating, planning, preforming for students to engage them in the learning process. Teachers encourages, engage and assess. Teachers are trainers. Trainers within a public school, the same as a Trainer in the corporate environment. There is so much more a teacher can do that most people do not know. Teachers are always learning, especially while developing and delivering curriculum.

Loved this organization when I first began working with them. But after six years, three different sets of management, no support for staff, never-ending threats of all kinds, favoritism, no consistency....and the list goes on, this company is no longer 'fun' to work for.

The only positive constant with this organization are the few peers/co-workers who are still holding on [employed] by a threads of sanity who are passionate about what they do.  Unfortunately, what was once a phenomenal company to work for has now become a depressing and opressing institution of 'do as I say, not as I do'. Stay away and choose a comparable company who values their staff and keeps the "I" out of "TEAM".

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