How many teachers have been destaffed at your kids’ school?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m really frustrated that the art teacher at my child’s ES got destaffed because the new principal decided she wanted to add an instructional coach.

As a teacher in another school, I’ve never found an instructional coach to have an actual positive impact on student learning. I’m sure they help take lots of tasks off admin plates. They lead CLTs and coordinate testing an all kinds of great things for admin. But I honestly don’t think it shouldn’t be allowed for principals to take instructional staffing and divert it to create non-instructional positions because it benefits them.

Anyway, that’s the only person I personally know who got destaffed this year. And it stinks.

So you know this because the principal said to this art teacher, “Hey, I’m trading your position in so that I can buy an instructional coach position instead. I’ll be able to to make the master schedule work without an entire art teacher position.” Is that how you know this art teacher positon was destaffed and why—because the principal explained it to the teacher like that? Or are you just guessing?

I know the trades my principal made—they are relatively transparent with the people they play favorites with. Destaffing the art teacher means that another specialist is likely getting screwed and will have a monster teaching load next year. My own kids school has a STEAM teacher, meaning that the classroom teachers get more planning time than schools without a STEAM teacher.
To the poster the mentioned the IC, an IC trade is actually worth TWO teacher positions. So that means the school could have had an extra reading teacher, STEAM teacher….someone that actually works with kids. I’ve yet to meet a teacher who would rather have an IC vs. someone who is instructional.