A Few Points to Ponder As You Continue on Your Instructional Leadership Journey… Being a school administrator can be overwhelming, especially when classroom observations are added to to the mix. Make every minute you are in classrooms count, without creating endless paperwork that there isn’t time to complete. Get started by reading How School Administrators Provide Meaningful Formative Feedback About Instructio Building consistent practice of classroom visits will help reduce teacher anxiety, especially when you start having learning-focused conversations about what you observed when you were there. A good place to start is with this posting: How School Administrators Build Learning-Focused Continue Reading
Top Ten Considerations For School Administrators Before Setting Annual Goals and Objectives With Teachers
A Bit of Context Many districts in California and some districts across the nation have teachers develop annual goals and objectives (G/O). As one might imagine, there are a wide range of expectations between districts. Here are a few: Some have every teachers create them every year, whether or not they are being formally evaluated, others have this expectation only for those teachers on the evaluation cycle. Some have the expectation that they will be developed collaboratively with the administrator and others do not. Some require the use of a variety of teaching standards (like the California Standards for the Continue Reading