thesumisgreater:

I know that the butt of many teacher jokes is the idea that we don’t “work” much with all our holidays and summer vacation. Although it may not look like a 9-5, I spend so much of my “summer off” doing curriculum planning, organization, reading, and going to professional development sessions, that…

Good stuff here.  I need to come back and reread this from time to time, too.  =)