Standard 3 for Administrators:
The school administrator provides effective leadership in the area of human resources through selecting, assigning, inducting, supporting, developing, evaluating, and retaining quality instructional and support personnel.
This post first appeared in Education Week’s Finding Common Ground. Finding Common Ground, a blog run by Peter DeWitt for Education Week has been one of my favorites to read, learn and grow from each week. He has just shared that he is making his exit from this blog (I can’t wait to see what’s … [Read more…]
This week’s #educoach chat was on Effective Pre/Post Conferences with Teachers for Observation and was a great discussion that all principals could benefit from. If you would like to read the archives of the chat, you can find a link at the end of this post. I’ve previously written about leading with a “coaching hat” … [Read more…]
Of all the things I have to do each day as a principal, my favorite “task” is getting into classrooms each day to see what students are learning. I actually don’t see it as a “task” of something I “have to do,” in fact I prefer it over all the other things that are on … [Read more…]
Here’s another cross-post of my Friday Focus post for staff, in which I openly reflect for them on how my practice impacts their reflection. I’d love to hear feedback from other administrators trying to balance between the coaching and evaluating hats.—————————————————————————————— In a previous Friday Focus posts I have shared with you my goal to … [Read more…]
Last week I tweeted that I had completed 126 classroom visits during the month of September and quickly had several replies from other administrators (in public mentions and direct messages): How long do you stay in a classroom? What form/method are you using? Do you always give teachers feedback? How do you make time for … [Read more…]
Teacher evaluations are a necessary component of every administrators job. Managing the teacher evaluation process is quite time consuming for administrators. Recently I recorded a podcast at Eduleadership Radio with Justin Baeder and another guest principal, Chuck Bell. It was a great opportunity to learn about the process in other states and learn some great … [Read more…]
Blog 12 of Spilling Ink Challenge More on walk-throughs…I’ve explored various ways of keeping track of walk-throughs. This past year I used a spreadsheet for each quarter. On the left collumn were all teacher names (organized by grade level, then alphabetically, because that was easiest for me). Then there were 9 collumns…one for each week … [Read more…]
Blog 11 of Spilling Ink I’ve previously talked about my professional development plan (for state licensure renewal) being focused on using walk-throughs to improve student learning. My goal this year was to get into at least 15 classrooms each week and provide staff with meaningful feedback. When I wasn’t inundated with tasks related to my … [Read more…]
I used our week long spring break to catch up and plan ahead for my maternity leave. What I couldn’t plan for at that time was the amount of time I would have to spend on hiring new staff. With retirements, resignations, and staff moving into different positions in the district I had seven new … [Read more…]