5:30 a.m. - I'm learning that Monday's are challenging in the K,1,2 world. It's seemingly just hard to slug through a Monday for students after being home for two days of the weekend. I really wanted to get some things done, but I stayed busy for most of the day on building management things. Then last night we had a BOE meeting. There didn't seem to be a lot of items there, so after coming home I watched some Monday Night Football and went to bed.
Maybe I'll get some things done today that I had hoped to get done yesterday.
One thing that I'm discovering is challenging is the apparent distrust between the three main instructional groups in the building - classroom teachers, interventionist, and special education. Those three groups need to trust and work together, but unfortunately failure is what links the three. If classroom teachers use a variety of strategies to help students and fail to produce results, then the interventionist kicks in. If the interventionist use a variety of strategies to continue to help those students, then special education kicks in. Special education, then, has to make decisions to include the student in as much classroom time as possible while also helping the student progress as far as possible within her/his limitations. The result is that the three groups tend to question each other. Why isn't that group doing more? Is that group really doing more? Shouldn't that group be doing more faster? Should that group being doing better? As principal, then, I get caught in between the groups and their concerns.
Things for School
- Sept. 16 - BOE meeting
OTHER THINGS
- pay bills - NW Mutual, Modern Woodmen
- next week dress-up - T-tropical, W-Wacky, T-hat, F-spirit
- jury summons - week of 10-7-24
- Call Sunday 309-204-9090
- 14th Judicial Circuit Court
- 1317 3rd Avenue, Suite 304
- Rock Island
- Dec. 19 8:30 a.m. Wang physical
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