As in the past three years, advocacy activities will include
a Principal Shadowing Day, where U.S. Department of Education policymakers will personally experience a day in the life of Washington D.C. - area principals and see education policies in action.
On
Principal Shadowing Day back in November, one of the host principals said he participated in the event to show policymakers that schools are complex and multifaceted.
That lesson rang true this past November, during NAESP's second annual
Principal Shadowing Day, when four dozen U.S. Department of Education officials walked in the shoes of principals.
The goal of
Principal Shadowing Day was to allow decision - makers to experience how policy impacts practice by illuminating the realities of principals» jobs, such as leading instructional shifts and implementing new curricula aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Not exact matches
With the help of Challenge Success, JLS
Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow
Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterwa
Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school
day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterwa
day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.
«Now when I have a bad
day, I think of her [the
principal she
shadowed],» said Claudine Tikoian, assistant vice president for commercial lending at Sovereign Bank in Providence, Rhode Island.
In the one
day I spent at BAMS, partially
shadowing Principal Chrisco, I was simply awestruck, for two reasons.
Recently, more than a dozen community members — from pastors to police officers — shared an opportunity to
shadow one of the districts educational leaders as their schools
principal for a
day.»
Principal for a Day Cobb County (Georgia) business and community leaders bring their corporate skills into a school setting as they shadow a public school principal for a
Principal for a
Day Cobb County (Georgia) business and community leaders bring their corporate skills into a school setting as they shadow a public school principal for a half d
Day Cobb County (Georgia) business and community leaders bring their corporate skills into a school setting as they
shadow a public school
principal for a
principal for a half
dayday.
And Meloche has encouraged
principals to
shadow their students from time to time to get a fuller picture of what their experience is like on a typical school
day.
«Our
Principal's Shadowing Program gives parents an opportunity to spend two hours of a typical day with the principal learning about their child's grade level expectations and walking through classrooms to see the teachers and students i
Principal's
Shadowing Program gives parents an opportunity to spend two hours of a typical
day with the
principal learning about their child's grade level expectations and walking through classrooms to see the teachers and students i
principal learning about their child's grade level expectations and walking through classrooms to see the teachers and students in action.
He noted that after Department staff spent a
day shadowing principals across the DC area, one of the participants mentioned how beneficial the Department's Teaching Ambassador Fellowship Program appeared and asked if there could be a similar program for
principals to highlight their critical voices in dialogues surrounding education policy.