Expand your vision to include the full school year as a whole. During the first quarter you blast off into the new year with great energy and excitement. You can expect to observe, analyze, and debrief many of the following events as you plan what they should look like in the following year.
a) Enrollment, registration,
b) Start-up of classes and orientation,
c) First meetings with staff, students, and parents, and Open House night
d) Support system for new teachers,
e) First classroom observations and individual goal-setting with staff,
f) Student report cards and identification of students at risk,
g) Review and discussion of student assessment data from the previous year and the effectiveness of the school's curricular programs,
h) Supervision of athletics and student activities,
i) Student college and career advisement,
j) Implementation of professional development activities,
k) New course development for the following year,
l) Textbook selection processes for the following year
m) Systems monitoring (budget, facilities, attendance, maintenance, busing, discipline, etc.)
In your first year as principal, your purpose is to understand how all of these systems and events work, what needs to happen to improve them for next year, and what are the priorities for discussion (since you will need to limit your school's focus efforts to just a few important areas that support the goals).
Enjoy the excitement of blasting off into the school year and getting all systems up and running!
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