Campus Leadership Analysis

Assignment: Interview your practicing campus principal. Topics to be included include: supervisory activities, including providing feedback to staff, working with and nurturing assistant principals and teachers, making changes happen in school, his or her decision making practices, the campus improvement process.

Prepare a 3-page summary and conclusions about what you learned in the interview.

Key points from the interview for me:

Administrative duties are tough in large schools.

Feedback and supervision tends to be impersonal in large schools due to size.

Family time will be impacted.

Separation from students is hard to deal with but inevitable.

Change is a process.

Decision making ability is key.

Be more of an influencer but be prepared to make the decision if needed.

The notes in the live blog reflect comments from the class.