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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] [b]At my current school, there are too many admin, and each of them is scurrying to show that their post is relevant.[/b] In my school, high school teachers share a common calendar and work together to ensure that students don't have major assessments on the same day or near the same day when possible. None of the members of our bloated admin staff have the same consideration for teachers as they all rush to create new "initiatives" and processes and meetings.[/quote]

This right here. My small Title I ES has 2 admin and 4 nebulous facilitators who do not work with students and are instead supposed to be supporting teachers in improving their practice. What it really means is those 6 people spend an awful lot of time making tasks for us to do in meeting after meeting without ever working with students or in a classroom so they can see just how desperately our kids need more effective help. Their suggestions are great in theory but not in practice and most of them do not have proven experience improving a school like ours. My “planning time” is spent doing tasks they make them look and feel good without actually helping accelerate the growth of my students who are YEARS below grade level.[/quote]

I used to work in FCPS about 10 years ago, and it was the same.  We had classes with too many kids and then "coaches" walking around making more work for everyone, pulling a single kid or special "enrichment" group here and there, but essentially contributing nothing of value to the school while making more work for the rest of us.  Likewise, we had two assistant principals whose main job seemed to be leading fire drills and roaming the school in search of teachers to criticize for something.  [/quote]

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