Anita O'Neill appointed as permanent principal at Clarksburg HS.

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Anonymous wrote:This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

- Safety and Security
- Effective communications
- Consensus building
- Positive culture building

Just to name a few…

Are they not learning the above in these certificate and master’s programs in Education Administration/Leadership?

Lots of theory is covered in graduate programs. Principals need training in practicalities and translating theory into action.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

- Safety and Security
- Effective communications
- Consensus building
- Positive culture building

Just to name a few…

Are they not learning the above in these certificate and master’s programs in Education Administration/Leadership?

Lots of theory is covered in graduate programs. Principals need training in practicalities and translating theory into action.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

- Safety and Security
- Effective communications
- Consensus building
- Positive culture building

Just to name a few…

Are they not learning the above in these certificate and master’s programs in Education Administration/Leadership?

hahahaha, teachers don't even learn up to date classroom management techniques in their elementary education BS programs. What makes you think admin learn that in their programs? They get the basics of those above categories, if they're even covered at all, and are forced to pick up those above skills later.

The Bannockburn principal position was posted today.

Anonymous wrote:BOE meeting on Thursday, does anyone know if any principal appointments will be made?

Given how many vacancies they have, I'd have to imagine there will be some.

BOE meeting on Thursday, does anyone know if any principal appointments will be made?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

- Safety and Security
- Effective communications
- Consensus building
- Positive culture building

Just to name a few…

Are they not learning the above in these certificate and master’s programs in Education Administration/Leadership?

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

- Safety and Security
- Effective communications
- Consensus building
- Positive culture building

Just to name a few…

The administrators I see now versus the ones from 20 years ago seemed ill prepared to take on the role. It's a huge responsibility and so many moving parts to juggle and many of the new hires are going to flame out

-mcps veteran educator

This is interesting to me. What specific skills do principals need that they’re not currently trained in?

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS Leadership Development Program (which Monifa was once part of) has been out of step for a long time. Training school leaders demands research-based methods and skilled trainers. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Additionally, they need more than just the speakers who come in periodically. They need people to teach them the numerous day to day responsibilities of the principalship.

Isn't that what happens during the principal internships?

In theory yes, but not all principal developers know how to train others. If they did, and if the evaluation process was accurate, there wouldn't be the large number of supposedly "principal ready" administrators that so many are worried and posting about.

We're just not able to get staff development quite right in this school district.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The MCPS Leadership Development Program (which Monifa was once part of) has been out of step for a long time. Training school leaders demands research-based methods and skilled trainers. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Additionally, they need more than just the speakers who come in periodically. They need people to teach them the numerous day to day responsibilities of the principalship.

Isn't that what happens during the principal internships?

In theory yes, but not all principal developers know how to train others. If they did, and if the evaluation process was accurate, there wouldn't be the large number of supposedly "principal ready" administrators that so many are worried and posting about.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The MCPS Leadership Development Program (which Monifa was once part of) has been out of step for a long time. Training school leaders demands research-based methods and skilled trainers. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Additionally, they need more than just the speakers who come in periodically. They need people to teach them the numerous day to day responsibilities of the principalship.

Isn't that what happens during the principal internships?

Anonymous wrote:The MCPS Leadership Development Program (which Monifa was once part of) has been out of step for a long time. Training school leaders demands research-based methods and skilled trainers. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Additionally, they need more than just the speakers who come in periodically. They need people to teach them the numerous day to day responsibilities of the principalship.