On another post Anonymous wrote:
"New topic please-- rumors of a " principals test" going around-- two parts -- if the dont pass the first they cant take the second?-- We went through the inane teacher tests aboutvten years ago-- I 'm not a fan of many principals of today -- but no test measures the essence of what they do."
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The test is not just for principals, it is for anyone who evaluates teachers ( the test is from the Samuelson system), I believe CRI's also have to take it
Yes, the teacher academy teachers who are going to be in on RISE evaluations have to be trained and tested and will have (theoretically) spent more time learning about it than the principals who have a lot more on their plates.
I believe you mean Danielson though (as in Charlotte Danielson). I believe she's the one who spelled out the domains, etc.
This isn't PPS but it sure does look like RISE, eh?
http://www.whitebear.k12.mn.us/teachereval.html
If you're not a teacher, imagine those 4 Domains exploded outward into 30+ pages of explanation and further detail about those categories and in each of those clarifications you can be rated, essentially 1-4, rather like the 4 labels of NCLB. Only instead of advanced you get to be "distinguished" etc.
So I heard that cri's are supposed to serve as "quality control" for rogue principals who are suspected of abusing the rise system?
Hmm, CRIs who drank to kool-aid limiting principals who are doing what the system is hoping for-- exiting teachers who dont conform. Remember two years ago, the buzzword in the meetings was FIDELITY, and executing the script with fidelity. Now they are soft-pedaling the language but the intent still reigns.
I see a shift away from this among smarter principals. There are a few of them out there.
Yes this is true. I know a few smart ones too-- how very brave in this era.
Update: Kellie Abbott, the former co-principal, at Westinghouse was assigned to the position of Curriculum Coach at Langley at last night's Legislative Meeting.
Interesting. Where will she be next year? I thought they were eliminating coaches?
Amazing! Central Office staff fail to provide the resources and assistance needed for principals to do their job and who gets demoted? The principal! It's amazing how situations such as this happens in every organization / business. The persons at the top of the organization fail to follow through by only half baking their plan but the it's never the leaders who pushed the incomplete plan through that get demoted or terminated. It's always the person under them.
The administrators at WHS were set up for failure. Central Office leaders and Board members, except Brentley failed to listen to the community and parents. The plan they laid out was poorly orchestrated yet no one is holding any of these persons accountable. It appears that the only employees held accountable are the ones who touch children: principals and teachers! How can that be?
Board Members, what questions are you asking Central Office administrators?
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