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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s how MCPS works:
1. Bad teachers become principals
2. Bad principals get moved to Central Office
3. Central Office supervises principals
4. The cycle continues until something ends up on the front page of the Washington Post

I encourage the Springbrook staff to reach out to Alexandra Robbins. Anyone else with toxic school leadership should also speak to the media. [/quote]

On point, on point. And when you look at how MCPS seems to look at this concept, they throw it all in the garbage can. There are some people who would work as good principals when you look at something like their LinkedIn, but who cares about that![/quote] The only way to fix this is to incentivize great teachers by paying them more than APs and principals, it could work because for most of these people being out of the classroom is incentive enough to take less pay; most were horrible teachers and couldn’t hack it in the classroom. Alternatively, make it so only the finest teachers have a shot at leadership.  There shouldn’t be a single AP or principal who isn’t at a minimum a nationally board certified teacher first. You’d get rid of the trash we have now and fill leadership with the cream of the crop. [/quote]

I think there's some merit to what you're saying but I do think that being a principal and being a great teacher require very different skillsets and I'm not so sure that being a great teacher means you'll be a great principal. A principal is essentially a CEO of their school. Which means they need an incredible amount of executive function, diplomacy, political, budgeting, conflict resolution and creative problem solving skills at scale. Great teachers might be able to exhibit some of those skills in a classroom environment but that won't translate to managing the entire school population.

I do agree paying GREAT teachers on par with APs would be a way to incentivize people to grow where their strengths are and frankly where the school system's need is though. The bar for that kind of teacher would have to be incredibly high though.

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Many veteran teachers make high salaries, close to an AP’s and working 10 months. [/quote]

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