http://www.edwize.org/the-balancing-act Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwize.org/the-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-67005 Bob Calder Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:41:05 +0000 http://www.edwize.org/?p=6591#comment-67005 Your assistant principal has taken classes to learn this behavior. Unfortunately. Your assistant principal has taken classes to learn this behavior. Unfortunately.

]]> http://www.edwize.org/the-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-67004 TeacherParent Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:33:39 +0000 http://www.edwize.org/?p=6591#comment-67004 Bravo for Ms. Brave! What a great post and what great questions it posed. When such good questions as hers are asked, they're usually answered with 'not enough money.' For what? For someone to call and ask if the Hulk has made an appearance today? How much money does such a phone call cost? School has become a process of problems and paperwork that 'documents' the problems. We're asked to include critical thinking into our lessons but there's too little of it at the administrative level. I try to avoid the blame game at all costs but to fix the problem of the Hulk requires that more personal attention given to him. The phone call over reading levels should be given over to a personal call and a daily visit to the classroom by this school's administrator to child Julio on his bad days and to praise him on his good days. Julia needs to feel a part of a community and needs to be helped to feel that what he does in the classroom matters not just to his classroom teacher but also to his Principal and Vice-Principals. Ms. Brave is almost brave enough to say it - there's too little real leadership in our schools. Yet every study that finds a school that's different because it's better also finds just that - a real leader at the helm who reaches out to the several constituencies of the school community. Bravo for Ms. Brave! What a great post and what great questions it posed. When such good questions as hers are asked, they’re usually answered with ‘not enough money.’
For what? For someone to call and ask if the Hulk has made an appearance today? How much money does such a phone call cost?
School has become a process of problems and paperwork that ‘documents’ the problems. We’re asked to include critical thinking into our lessons but there’s too little of it at the administrative level.
I try to avoid the blame game at all costs but to fix the problem of the Hulk requires that more personal attention given to him. The phone call over reading levels should be given over to a personal call and a daily visit to the classroom by this school’s administrator to child Julio on his bad days and to praise him on his good days. Julia needs to feel a part of a community and needs to be helped to feel that what he does in the classroom matters not just to his classroom teacher but also to his Principal and Vice-Principals.
Ms. Brave is almost brave enough to say it – there’s too little real leadership in our schools. Yet every study that finds a school that’s different because it’s better also finds just that – a real leader at the helm who reaches out to the several constituencies of the school community.

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