The Difference One Can Make

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Last week my principal asked at the one quarter mark of the year to gauge the culture and climate of our school in comparison with last year.  Being a new school in first year last year our school's administration scored very poorly on our LKES survey administered to teachers in the building in April.
In the area of assistant principal's HHS only had two assistant principals last year, myself and one other.  I was able to see my results last April and the school's results so it was simple for me to see what administrator was bringing down the school results.
Over the summer the other assistant principal changed positions and HHS was able to replace that position and also add another AP due to the addition of a senior class.  Now we are running with three AP's and a principal.
In order to gauge the culture and climate of the school I used the same questions from the LKES survey and administered the survey to teachers returning from year one, we lost a large amount of staff do you the culture and climate that existed in year one.
The results from the survey were exactly what they should have been in year one if the scores of the AP had not skewed our school results so badly.  My question:  Why did our principal allow this when the AP's behavior could have been remedied early in the year?

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  1. UnknownOctober 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM

    I work in the county and my school is geographically close to yours. I cannot answer for your principal but I can tell you that many people in the county feel like the "HHS experiment" is a failure. Maybe the principal wanted a complete or "true" sense of the culture and climate.

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  2. UnknownOctober 20, 2015 at 10:28 AM

    Things have rebounded in our second year and I feel that the perceptions that the experiment is a failure is wrong. We had our growing pains in our first year but I do feel that as a Personalized Learning school we are ahead of many in the county that are just beginning the process. The culture and climate that is so important for a successful school is much improved this year.

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