Monday, January 19, 2009

No Blogs for a while

Hello everyone,

Leon and I are going today to Salt Lake City to have a one-day training session tomorrow from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) We will be staying at the Hilton Hotel in downtown SLC! Next week we will start our testing. This is my third year and Leon's fourth. We go to different schools in central Utah and administer tests to 4th, 8th and 12th grade students. Luckily we have a script we have to read so that everyone receives the same information. We don't correct their booklets either; they are sent back to Washington DC for grading. We usually test Monday through Thursday, but occasionally we have to stay over to do a makeup test. Sometimes we have to leave Sunday afternoon in order to arrive at the town to be ready for testing the next morning. We don't know yet just where we will be testing; we should find out tomorrow. It is a nice little working vacation; we earn money and are reimbursed for meals, gas and hotels if we stay overnight. I won't have much time at home these next six to seven weeks so will start writing again in March. Thank you all for the nice things you have said and the encouragement to continue writing.

Love,

Barbara, Mom, Grandma

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