Ensuring Success With a New Crop of Teachers Every Year
Printer-friendly versionThe most important job of a school leader is to ensure that every teacher is working at full capacity. But how can principals do this, particularly when a new crop of teachers arrives every year? And what can they do when nothing they’ve tried seems to work? Hear how school leaders at 2007 DTM winner Ware Elementary School work together to ensure teachers begin as competent reading and math teachers and improve over time, taking on leadership roles throughout the school. By providing such consistent help for teachers and ensuring that the students who need the best teachers get them, Ware has become one of the top-performing schools in Kansas, marking it as a true turnaround story.
Deb Gustafson, principal, and Jennie Black, assistant principal, Ware Elementary School, Fort Riley, Kan.
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