On August 18th, I've embarked on a new journey as the assistant principal at the middle school I work at. I spent many hours since the spring doing some soul searching about applying for this position. I knew that the competition would be tough so I read and read and read book after book. The key author that helped me was Todd Whitaker. His books helped me to think about and come up with ideas that would help improve the school. I began to have difficulty sleeping because so many ideas were popping into my brain.
The first thing I knew the school needed was an amazing welcome back for the teachers. Working in an inner city school has many ups and downs. As a teacher, you need as much inspiration and support you can get.
The first ideas was to spruce up the faculty rooms with much needed supplies. I had approval from the principal to buy for each room: a comfy chair, set of dishes, set of silverware, and curtains. The school is one campus but two separate buildings. Each floor has a faculty room for a total of 6 rooms. The other assistant principal and I started by cleaning and organizing the rooms including the refrigerators. Next we put in the dishes and silverware, set up the chair in a cozy corner with inspirational quotes from Scholastic Instructor magazine around it, curtains, dish rack and created a tree of thanks on the bulletin board.
It ended up taking us from 9 am to 7:30 pm on a Friday to finish all 6 rooms. The teachers were definitely surprised. It's great to see all of it being put to use!
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