Hello again, As an administrator, you’re going to be in so many parent meetings that you’ll lose count very soon. It’s just part of the job. As a teacher, I had the occasional meeting where we discussed the progress of the student (or lack thereof), but I could go weeks without having a parent meeting. […]
As an administrator, one of my responsibilities is dealing with discipline issues. Students who make poor decisions are sent to me, and I have to hand out consequences so that they can learn a lesson and think twice before making another poor decision. One of the first students who came to my office for disciplinary […]
In my current administrative position, I am still not authorized to evaluate teachers. Recently, however, I attended a meeting with other administrators where we learned about how to conduct an evaluation meeting with a teacher. I took good notes, seeing that eventually I will have to conduct such meetings. Here’s what I learned in a […]
When I jumped into school administration, I knew I would have to learn a lot real fast, but I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed lately. There is just so much to learn in such a short period of time. I just saw the movie Unstoppable, and I was feeling like Denzel Washington as he was […]