Day: July 27, 2018

It’s not just teacher retention; School principal turnover is also concerning

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Reprint fromWACH Fox57 COLUMBIA, S.C. — COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) — While a teacher shortage in South Carolina continues to receive plenty of attention, there’s also a lesser-known crisis: the growing shortage of school administrators. Now, educators are trying to find ways to keep school principals. Researchers say the number of principals across the state isn’t keeping up with the growth of student enrollment. Studies show every year, there’s a 20% turnover rate of school principals. Jim LeBlanc used to be an elementary school teachers, and has felt the weight of school principals leaving.…

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Elementary Principals Worry More About Student Well-Being Than a Decade Ago

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Reprint from edweek.org By Denisa R. Superville on July 27, 2018 5:07 PM Elementary school principals say they are very worried about the rising numbers of students with emotional problems. They are concerned that more students have mental health needs. They also rank family poverty, school safety, and students’ lack of effective supervision at home as high on their list of anxieties about student well-being. A new survey of elementary principals and assistant principals captured those top issues—which in many ways mirror the broader public mood in 2018. The survey’s results were published…

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Whitehall principal named one of three finalists for national Principal of the Year award

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Reprint from Montana Standard mtstandard.com by TED McDERMOTT ted.mcdermott@mtstandard.com When Whitehall’s Hannah Nieskens learned she’d been selected as one of three finalists for the prestigious National Principal of the Year award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, she says she was “really surprised.” But maybe she shouldn’t have been. In April, the Montana Association of Secondary Schools Principals named Nieskens state principal of the year. And in just three years at the helm of both Whitehall Middle School and Whitehall High School, she has brought about “a whole change…

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