This has got easier at work over the last few weeks. I wrote a while ago about having a professional conflict with a colleague and the fact that I had been rather blunt with her. We have come to the end of the first semester and as usual that leads to a reassessment of how the routines and groupings withing the classroom go. It can also lead to a juggling of specialist timetables. In this case the colleague who supports my Special Ed kids was re adjusting her timetable. I was very firm on what worked for our class and what wouldn’t …..making sure that we didn’t have the support at times that we couldn’t use it. I must’ve been very assertive because when she came back with the second draft she told me that she was bringing it to me first to I could tell her all the things that were wrong. My kids are getting a good deal out of it so I don’t care if I have been seen as being a bit pushy on this one.