Mandatory PD Meetings and Unconsulted Class Assignments Waste Teachers' Planning Time

Summary

Schools force teachers to attend hours of generic professional development meetings that could easily be emails, while simultaneously assigning them classes they were never consulted about. This leaves educators with almost no time to prepare their classrooms or plan instruction, creates resentment and burnout, and signals that administrators do not value teachers' professional judgment. The problem remains unsolved because admin processes continue to prioritize scheduled meetings over actual instructional preparation time, with no tool or policy giving teachers control over their own planning hours.