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In our district we use the model of department chairs and in the past
department chairs were viewed primarily as assisting with the administration of the
school, textbook inventory, teacher absences, coverage, those types of things.
One of the first things I hoped to do when I became principal was change
that model and actually involve our department heads as part of a true
leadership team.
I felt that department heads are our experts in field and yet we weren't utilizing
that expertise. So we turned over the the true running of the departments
to them.
From teacher schedules,
to testing to assessment, to disagregation of data and the running of
the PLC's, and as the principal and with my assistant principal for
curriculum we became attendees to those department meeting. So rather then
me controlling our department heads in their meetings, they control the meetings
and my assistant principal for curriculum. I attended and tried to facilitate
and meet the needs that they had as they come up with plans and ideas