principals are you brave enough

Principals: Are you brave enough to ask for staff feedback?

…growth! Jennifer Gonzalez Cynthia, You have no idea how excited I am to hear this! I’m so glad you decided to take that brave step, and I bet your staff is, too. Thanks so much for sharing this! Kathy Jennifer — I would love to see a regularly occurring evaluation where people did sign their names. We sign our names to student assessments. Principals sign their names to teacher assessments. For me, the days of anonymous evaluations after people have pent-up frustrations should be over. Rather, we could seek feedback often. After staff meetings: 1) what went particularly well? 2)…

What Teachers Really Think About Principals

…I think these results can serve as a springboard for future action: Principals can use these results to reflect on their own practice. Whether a member of your staff actually took the survey is irrelevant, because these stories could have been told about many, many principals walking the halls of our schools right this minute. And regardless of what you believe about your performance as an administrator, this survey makes one thing clear: Your teachers aren’t telling you everything. When asked whether they felt comfortable going to their administrator with a complaint about something the administrator had done, a full 70…

The Principal’s Pet: A Cautionary Tale

…I was one of the good ones. But that feeling is soul candy, a momentary high from the drug of competition, and it’s totally incompatible with something that would be far more sustaining: collegiality. If I could go back now, I would do things differently. Since I can’t, here’s my advice to principals and teachers to help you avoid similar problems in your school. Advice for Principals Make staff relationships a priority. When I interviewed Carrie, a teacher who left the profession after five years, she told me that one big contributor to her desire to leave was how isolated…

Conquering National Board Certification (and Why It’s Totally Worth It)

…add another start-up and be our group facilitator! (For a fee of course!) You are our MARIGOLD after all! I am also 50, (okay 51!) and frankly have sooooo much fear! I would like to be brave enough to tackle the BEAST! It would be so much better with a group- Just like a Personal Trainer in the gym! Jennifer Gonzalez Jody, you have given me an idea. I have been considering starting groups on Voxer for various interest areas…maybe I could start my first one for new NBCT candidates? Julia K Jennifer, I just stumbled across your post during…