Wilson principal search

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

"You know, the reform efforts that are taking place in DC right now are unparalleled and the most important educator in our country right now is Kaya Henderson."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

Here's what worries me...

ED: Oh awesome, will he be going to Wilson?


KM: Very likely, but I’m not sure how the District thing works. I haven’t figured all that out yet – I’ve been very busy between starting my life in DC with Wilson High School and closing things up here.


ED: If you live in the District do you think you’ll send him to a DC public school?

KM: Uh, yeah!

ED: Awesome. *KM laughs*

KM: We are going to live in the District definitely. I just don’t know how the schooling works, if he goes to the school that I’m at or if he goes to the school that’s nearest to our house.


I would prefer a Principal at my child's DC school who knows "how the District thing works." I don't have time to wait for a Principal to learn the ropes - I need a strong and solid Principal in there right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

Here's what worries me...

ED: Oh awesome, will he be going to Wilson?


KM: Very likely, but I’m not sure how the District thing works. I haven’t figured all that out yet – I’ve been very busy between starting my life in DC with Wilson High School and closing things up here.


ED: If you live in the District do you think you’ll send him to a DC public school?

KM: Uh, yeah!

ED: Awesome. *KM laughs*

KM: We are going to live in the District definitely. I just don’t know how the schooling works, if he goes to the school that I’m at or if he goes to the school that’s nearest to our house.


I would prefer a Principal at my child's DC school who knows "how the District thing works." I don't have time to wait for a Principal to learn the ropes - I need a strong and solid Principal in there right now.

"Awesome."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

Here's what worries me...

ED: Oh awesome, will he be going to Wilson?


KM: Very likely, but I’m not sure how the District thing works. I haven’t figured all that out yet – I’ve been very busy between starting my life in DC with Wilson High School and closing things up here.


ED: If you live in the District do you think you’ll send him to a DC public school?

KM: Uh, yeah!

ED: Awesome. *KM laughs*

KM: We are going to live in the District definitely. I just don’t know how the schooling works, if he goes to the school that I’m at or if he goes to the school that’s nearest to our house.


I would prefer a Principal at my child's DC school who knows "how the District thing works." I don't have time to wait for a Principal to learn the ropes - I need a strong and solid Principal in there right now.

The problem with an administrator who knows "how this District thing works" (phrased sometimes as "getting "DC") is that such a person tends to be more of a bureaucrat who is too accepting of the system, if not too invested in it. Such an administrator is not a change agent.

[Anonymous]

Damn, no one gets any slack. Do you think new principals in Fairfax or Montgomery are having their interviews from a high school newspaper copied and dissected before they've even crossed the threshold??? Let the woman get her family moved here so she can begin her job. The most important thing she needs to be able to do right now is build strong relationships with her teachers and be able to support them to do their best teaching. The knowledge about how the DC school system will come in good time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

Here's what worries me...

ED: Oh awesome, will he be going to Wilson?


KM: Very likely, but I’m not sure how the District thing works. I haven’t figured all that out yet – I’ve been very busy between starting my life in DC with Wilson High School and closing things up here.


ED: If you live in the District do you think you’ll send him to a DC public school?

KM: Uh, yeah!

ED: Awesome. *KM laughs*

KM: We are going to live in the District definitely. I just don’t know how the schooling works, if he goes to the school that I’m at or if he goes to the school that’s nearest to our house.


I would prefer a Principal at my child's DC school who knows "how the District thing works." I don't have time to wait for a Principal to learn the ropes - I need a strong and solid Principal in there right now.

She's probably being diplomatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

Here's what worries me...

ED: Oh awesome, will he be going to Wilson?


KM: Very likely, but I’m not sure how the District thing works. I haven’t figured all that out yet – I’ve been very busy between starting my life in DC with Wilson High School and closing things up here.


ED: If you live in the District do you think you’ll send him to a DC public school?

KM: Uh, yeah!

ED: Awesome. *KM laughs*

KM: We are going to live in the District definitely. I just don’t know how the schooling works, if he goes to the school that I’m at or if he goes to the school that’s nearest to our house.


I would prefer a Principal at my child's DC school who knows "how the District thing works." I don't have time to wait for a Principal to learn the ropes - I need a strong and solid Principal in there right now.

She's probably being diplomatic.

I simply read it as not yet knowing where she is living and whether she will get some sort of principal preference if she chooses a home OOB for Wilson -- they did miss the lottery, so unless they move IB for Wilson or get principal preference (not sure if that exists), her child might not be able to go to Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

"You know, the reform efforts that are taking place in DC right now are unparalleled and the most important educator in our country right now is Kaya Henderson."

Yeah, what the heck?

[Anonymous]

Again principals are selected and not elected. You can't impeach a principal if they don't work out. They sign a contract with the Chancellor and let it be...name one principal that's been so instrumental within the DCPS circuit. Until a principal can rise from that position to the helm of chancellor/superintendent then just roll with the outcome.

[Anonymous]

Your successful DCPS application schools, many don't have principals with doctorates at the helm. Then there's some awful schools within the District that have principals with doctorate at helm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damn, no one gets any slack. Do you think new principals in Fairfax or Montgomery are having their interviews from a high school newspaper copied and dissected before they've even crossed the threshold??? Let the woman get her family moved here so she can begin her job. The most important thing she needs to be able to do right now is build strong relationships with her teachers and be able to support them to do their best teaching. The knowledge about how the DC school system will come in good time.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

"You know, the reform efforts that are taking place in DC right now are unparalleled and the most important educator in our country right now is Kaya Henderson."

Yeah, what the heck?

Seriously, y'all are balking at this? She's not going to bite that hand that feeds her. And given the explosive end to Cahall's reign, OF COURSE Kaya would hire someone who is going to be in her corner. This was a given - you shouldn't be surprised by this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of sending a second email it would be nice if DCPS admitted their mistake with the credentials. Total bunch of idiots downtown, with Kaya at the helm.

And yet it is interesting that the current Chancellor has had the most stable leadership in terms of tenure since the 1980s.

another indication that you don't have to be high on competency to keep your job.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't blame her at all for the Ph.D. misstatement--I have no doubt that came from Central. Just embarrassing that they did it (but not surprising).

Also strange that it took an entire day to fix the error.

and that they just made it disappear -- no acknowledgement of an error. Well, at least the Wilson student newspaper staff is getting a real-time lesson in bad communications techniques.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Q and A with Wilson Beacon:

http://thewilsonbeacon.com/question-and-answer-with-kimberly-martin/

She has certainly mastered the skill of brown-nosing.

Actually that wasn't so bad, Jeff. I liked how she talked about figuring out the answers together with the staff.

I agree that it wasn't so bad (other than the too obvious Kaya sycophancy). Let's see!