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Instructional coaches
Too many people in administration--if the principal was in the school most of the time, maybe we would not need so many AP's.

[b]You’re saying that instructional coaches should be cut? Seriously? Who is going to help train up all those teachers with little to no experience?[/b] Again, you’re going after next to nothing. The instructional coaches salaries budget went from $62M to $33M for next year. That’s 1.5% of the budget down to 0.8% of the budget.

As for APs, the total budget for all MS and HS APs is 0.79% of the total budget. That’s less than one percent.
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They cut that budget because those people were not training teachers. The people who help new teachers the most are their mentors and other teachers who are actually in the building with them (and who know what is going on in the building). Instructional coaches are really not worth much IMO.[/quote]

The model for instructional coaches is that they only help a teacher when the teacher, not the admin, asks for assistance.

As a 25 year veteran teacher of FCPS I asked for assistance once about eight years ago, just to see what the process was like. It made so much extra work for me. I would never do it again.[/quote]

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