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Overworked, undertrained principals
- 12-16-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Conduct more intensive teacher evaluations. Be the CEO of site-based budgeting. Guide the transition to Common Core standards. School reforms on the books or in the making would pile on significant responsibilities for school principals. But a new study by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd warns that California’s principals are already short-staffed, untrained for new responsibilities, and stretched thin in many directions. They’re working 60 hours per week on average, with fewer office and support staff around to lighten the load, according to the Center’s survey of 600 principals. “Budget cuts and increasing accountability pressures are clearly making the job (of principal) harder,” said Holly Jacobson, director of the Center at WestEd. (more...)
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