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While students protested against testing and basked in the late-spring sun, educators across the city hunkered down to prepare for next year.

The first Thursday of June is a mandatory training day for city teachers. Hiring committees were set to meet at some schools up for “turnaround” overhauls, teachers offered voluntary tutoring sessions for high schoolers scheduled to take Regents exams next week, and some departments took educational field trips, according to GothamSchools readers who reached out to let us know how they were spending the day formerly known as Brooklyn-Queens Day.

Here are some of the responses we got on Twitter when we asked city teachers how they were spending the training day:

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