Lincoln Academy Principal's Report
October 2008
Physical
Skills
Each
student will:
- Develop
coordination skills.
- Develop
an appreciation of sports through observation and participation.
- Develop
safety awareness.
- Enoch
Miller is creating several games and activities to help students
develop coordination skills.
- Students
are actively engaged in PE classes.
- Enoch
makes safety a priority in his lessons.
Treatment
of Staff With
respect to the treatment of paid and volunteer staff, the Principal,
so long as consistent with at-will employment, may not cause or allow
conditions that are illegal or that fail to treat staff with dignity,
respect and professionalism or that fail to provide appropriate
confidentiality, privacy or information.Accordingly,
the Principal shall not:
- Fail
to continuously inform and educate staff, and prospective staff,
about the policies and procedures and appropriate elements of
Lincoln Academy’s Contract with the District.
- Fail
to operate within written personnel policies that clarify personnel
rules for staff, provide for effective handling of grievances and
protect against wrongful conditions such as nepotism and grossly
preferential or biased treatment of personnel concerns.
- Discriminate
against or fail to constructively respond to any staff member.
- Prevent
staff from grieving to the Board in accordance with the School
Grievance Procedure.
- Evaluate
staff in ways that are not consistent with the Board’s adopted
Ends Policies.
- Fail
to provide the support and encouragement to staff as they work with
students in their pursuit of acquiring the academic, physical,
artistic and emotional/social skills.
- I
have not knowingly done any of these things.
- Evaluations
started the week of October 6. Please hold me accountable for
getting feedback to teachers in a timely manner.
Implementation
of the Education ProgramWith
respect to the education program of the school, the Principal shall
not cause or allow deviation from the Board’s Ends Policies.Accordingly,
the Principal shall not:
- Deviate
from the established curriculum implementing the Core Knowledge
Sequence ®, the synthetic, systematic phonics program (Open
Court) and the incremental math program (Saxon Math).
- Allow
staff to address the Ends Policies in ways that deviate materially
from school policies and procedures.
- Allow
the purchasing or utilization of materials that are not aligned with
the Ends Policies and the school policies and procedures.
- Fail
to hold staff accountable for assessing, tracking and regularly
reporting to parents, the individual capabilities of students and
their progress on the school’s benchmarks in accordance with the
Academic Skills Ends Policy.
- Fail
to facilitate teacher conferences with individual students on a
consistent basis.
- Fail
to ensure academic skill acquisition and passion for learning.
- Fail
to ensure staffings on appropriate students.
- Fail
to ensure quality work from students and staff.
- Fail
to inform and seek approval from the Board for substantive
instructional changes.
- I
have not knowingly done any of these things except allowing the
switch from Saxon to Glencoe in the middle school 2 years ago.
- I
believe that our academic program remains strong. Teachers set high
expectations and students continually rise to meet the challenge.
September
Activities:
- Kindergarten
visits for three days went well
- School
as usual
Facilities:
- Copy
room is now 100% complete. The district has not given us full
information about what insurance will cover. We should have a total
amount of LA money spent on the copy room by the next meeting.
- Brian
and I are meeting on 9/9 at 2:00. I’ll have a list of projects
for you on Monday.
Personnel:
- Two
more babies on the way! Heidi Ruybal is due in February and Matt
Spahn’s wife is due in May.
- No
changes, definitely no news is good news!
10/15/08
12:18 A10/P10
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