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As the leader of the educational team, too often the building principal has drifted away from the students and the classroom and become a detail problem solver, rather than the “Chief Executive of Learning.” This is not due to a lack of desire to stay closely involved with education itself but to the overwhelming daily demands of a principal’s job, as normally defined. |
 A new study supported by the University of Washington’s Wallace Foundation and outlined in Out of the Office and into the Classroom suggests that some changes in organization and responsibilities can make all the difference. Identifying a trained School Administration Manager (SAM) will allow a principal to dramatically increase his/her positive involvement with students, teachers and parents. The report offers suggestions to initiate the program with small dollar consequences, especially when weighed against the high costs of failure (such as principal burn-out or having to hire new teachers when potentially good ones leave the system from a lack of guidance and support).
Also, as outlined below, technology can allow a principal to effectively and routinely communicate with teachers, students, and parents and to lighten some of the daily work load.
Reliable technology = improved instructional results … that’s what ClassLink offers
With ClassLink LaunchPad, your principals, teachers and students have 24/7 access to work files and school software on any computer, anywhere. Concerned how to ensure your teachers and students get instructional value from your technology investment? Start by serving it to them 24/7. Let them reliably use your district’s software anytime, anywhere.
Join the over 300,000 students and teachers using ClassLink LaunchPad to deliver a reliable portal of work folders, district software, direct links to high quality online resources and web subscriptions 24/7.
Schools using ClassLink LaunchPad have improved teacher and student motivation, attendance, learning effectiveness, and teacher satisfaction by making it easy to access technology resources from any computer. Click here to see a video.
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