Ideal school environment

Parents, imagine the ideal school environment. Your children would be nurtured and care for as if you were teaching them at home. They would be welcomed each day by staff members, even the principal, who greeted them by name. Your input and expertise would be sought after as you partnered with teachers to educate your children. It would be a place of such wonder that your children would fake “well” to go to school when sick rather than the other way around.

Teachers, imagine the ideal school environment. You would be honored as professionals and treated with the respect your education deserves. You would be empowered to teach, not micromanaged. Your instructional leadership staff would work diligently to help you improve your craft, leading by example and modeling exemplar lessons. Your grade level or content team would work collaboratively to design and implement well-crafted lessons. A spirit of reflective feedback would permeate the building as all stakeholders, including students, pushed toward a common goal.

To make all this a reality, districts might need to hire teams of experts and trainers to lead the staff in a series of professional development sessions. Initiatives, buzzwords, and acronyms would be flying all over the place as educators scrambled to stitch together a coherent school vision.

Or they could simply hire me as their next principal. This is what I bring to the table.

If you are reading this and know me, please take the time to tag someone in your district office if there is currently a need for a dynamic, game-changing administrator. I am currently seeking an opportunity as a campus- or district-administrator and would love the opportunity to connect with people you know.