Yesterday our Principal resigned. We all knew this was coming, but change is never easy. And with an adversarial relationship between teachers who think about students as kids and administrators who view students as dollars and data, who knows what will happen. Then there is old caveat of hiring principals during the summer... that only the bad ones are left. Not exactly inspiring confidence, but hope springs eternal.
Meanwhile, back on the farm, I'm going through all my files and weeding. Last year I hastily toss files into boxes and promptly forgot about them. I didn't even open two of them. That usually means they are candidates for the trash bin. But, lucky me! I'll be teaching English 11 next year and hopefully something in those boxes will be helpful. The first thing I found was a early fall semester assignment used in my AP class. I was very upset last September when I couldn't find it and had to do a g*ogl* search to find another copy of the text. And that is why organization is important. This year, I'm turning over a new leaf in June.
Next week I'll be collating data for our RtI students. Our passing rate this year was significantly higher than last year in reading and writing. Although I'm not really attributing that to our fantastic interventions, it would be good to have something in graphical form that shows we're achieving something. And if you're wondering what RtI is all about... it's all about the graphs baby. Billions of dollars for pretty pictures. Or what would be pretty pictures if we could afford a color printer.
Meanwhile, back on the farm, I'm going through all my files and weeding. Last year I hastily toss files into boxes and promptly forgot about them. I didn't even open two of them. That usually means they are candidates for the trash bin. But, lucky me! I'll be teaching English 11 next year and hopefully something in those boxes will be helpful. The first thing I found was a early fall semester assignment used in my AP class. I was very upset last September when I couldn't find it and had to do a g*ogl* search to find another copy of the text. And that is why organization is important. This year, I'm turning over a new leaf in June.
Next week I'll be collating data for our RtI students. Our passing rate this year was significantly higher than last year in reading and writing. Although I'm not really attributing that to our fantastic interventions, it would be good to have something in graphical form that shows we're achieving something. And if you're wondering what RtI is all about... it's all about the graphs baby. Billions of dollars for pretty pictures. Or what would be pretty pictures if we could afford a color printer.
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For your sake, I hope there are some good ones left.
I do wonder if there will be an open house presentation from the candidates? We haven't had any recently, but then again, no one has been up for a secondary administration position. I guess time will tell.