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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To echo a PP, thank you for your service!

Just curious - if you could, what on that list would you get rid of or outsource? Ie What is high effort for low returns in your opinion?[/quote]
-One size fits all training (district, school, department levels).
-One size fits all school initiatives. 
-Any plan/initiative that takes away the ability for teachers to adapt to the needs of the students in their class.

Every year there are great ideas that will improve outcomes for some kids in some classes. But then someone decides everyone has to do that thing. Which means whole staff training, new documents that are force fit for everyone to track what they are doing, meetings to monitor that you filled out the forms, emails to read to remind you to do cuz about the new idea, emails sent to 10 people because 2 people didn’t do whatever. Reminders to pull data to monitor whatever the initiative is, nevermind that for your content area there is no alignment between your curriculum, the initiative, and the data you can pull. Then the extra meetings to review the data and justify to admin that whatever is going on does make sense. And by the time January rolls around, admin realizes they don’t want to spend all the time they committed to to read through new documents or sit in data chats. Then nothing more is heard of the initiative despite the 20 hours per staff member spent on it that year. Repeat again next year.

It’s freaking exhausting. And every year there’s a new crop of freshly trained admin or folks doing their PhD to generate a new set of initiatives.[/quote]

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