I left off the most important part on my last post, "First Principalship"! I am calling out to my fellow educators and asking, "What tips do you have for a first year principal"?
I would love to hear from other administrators, teachers, parents, students and anyone else who reads Middle View. I look forward to hearing your insight!
I am very excited to announce I have been named to my first principalship! I have actually been on the job officially for 3 weeks. Before the end of the school year I was working with the leadership team to begin preparations for the upcoming school year. So while I am still new, I have been on the job for a couple of months.
To say the least, I am very excited for the upcoming school year. The faculty and staff at my new school are wonderful. I have had the chance to meet with about 50 teachers individually. I enjoy spending time with them and getting to know them.
We are having our first annual Summer Bar-B-Que in a few weeks and we are all looking forward to that as well. It will be another opportunity for all of us to get together and continue getting to know one another. It will be fun as all employees and their families are invited.
I will keep you posted as the year progresses!
Our school district has an annual summer conference. It is called the Student Engagement Conference and it is taking place today and tomorrow. There is a ton of exciting sessions. We heard Marc Pensky speak this morning. He is a talented speaker with many great ideas. This quote from him sums it all up. I am paraphrasing from his keynote this morning.
We used to teach kids how to tell time by looking at the sun. Now we have a machine (clock) that makes it much, much easier. Now when teaching kids to tell time, we teach them how to read a watch.
I thought this was a wonderful point. Many educators are hesitant to embrace new technologies for the fear of abandoning the traditional way. I do not think we can afford to block new technologies as this is what our kids will be expected to know in the future. We did it with watches, so we can do it now! I am off to a session on teacher conferencing.
