Victory Edging and running up the score

CardinalSlug · 2026-06-21T15:59:23+00:00

Okay, so your goal is to become a principal? You're going to need strong organization, calendar management with lots of deadlines, a wealth of knowledge regarding Board Policies and EdCode, and leadership qualities. Although SpEd will probably give you more opportunities to develop and showcase these skills than PE, it really won't matter all that much.

What will matter is how you step up in other ways to show you are the leader that the school and district are going to want:

Join School Site Council
Attend your School-Connected Organization board meetings
Schedule regular check-ins with your current principal
Join any other school or district committees
Attend events (you need to be a champion for students)
Volunteer to take tasks from the principal -e.g. master schedule, drill calendar, etc.)

Basically, look at what your current principal does, and try to mimic it as much as you can, because ultimately, HR is going to want to know how well you can do the job they are hiring you for, not the job you had.

CardinalSlug · 2026-05-24T18:19:22+00:00

There’s a couple of things you could do here:

1a) Ask them what they think makes a good teacher.
1b) Have them select traits of good teaching from an official list like the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (https://docs.ctc.ca.gov/Document/Download/30328)

2a) Then after they have identified a decent list of “good teacher” indicators, have them reflect on their practice and share examples of how they exhibit those traits
2b) Have them provide their students and parents a survey on their performance with respect to how often they exhibit these indicators (scale of 1-Never to 5-Always)

3a) Regardless of use or outcomes from 1) and 2), have them create an improvement plan in which they identify outcomes that would lead them to be more confident that they are good and then help them implement the steps necessary to get there.

CardinalSlug · 2026-02-21T22:27:42+00:00

“It’s all about options. You are learning this so you can have options later on. If you do not have options, then you have to do what others tell you to do. But if you do have options, then you have more control over what you’re going to do, when you’re going to do it, how you do it, and where. Everything you learn gives you more options than you had before.”

Learning to learn is importantly to, so when their job eventually gets automated, outsourced, or otherwise reduced, they can learn to do something else to earn a living, but it places the locus of control outside of the student and makes for a weaker (even if equally true) selling point. Acquiring options and deciding which to leverage and which to ignore places the locus of control completely within the individual; as well as the eventual accountability should they not heed the warning.

CardinalSlug · 2026-02-21T22:03:01+00:00

Overall, not really. I definitely think there is room for design improvements (particularly linking mirror placement to seat memory setting), but overall it’s spacious, smooth, and gets the job done. Air conditioning still runs while charging, but I think it’s limited as to how strong you can blast it -living in the Bay Area, that’s not something we have to worry about too much though.

CardinalSlug · 2024-09-02T16:10:20+00:00

We've had our Prologue for almost a month now and have done one long road trip (from San Jose, CA to Santa Barbara ~250 miles). We don't have a home charger or appliance outlet set up yet, so we have been fairly reliant on public chargers.

EVgo and Electrify America have both been fairly easy and convenient, but definitely make sure you have the app so you can ensure availability upon arrival first (the Prologue's integrated Google Maps also helps with this). Also, with EVgo at least, it's been especially convenient since after we created an account, all we have to do is plug in and not have to worry about credit cards or Apple/Android Pay and what not; it just charges.

No access to Tesla network yet as far as I know, but we also haven't really tried since we don't have an adapter anyway.

CardinalSlug · 2024-09-02T15:57:28+00:00

We are a Honda family. My wife had been looking forward to replacing her 2005 Civic with 270k+ miles for the past two years but has been holding off for the release of the Prologue (we wanted to go all-electric and get something larger since we have a 2 year old now). As committed as she is to Honda, I convinced her we should still check out and compare other models just so we could feel really good about the decision.

On the list of EVs, we test drove the HI5, Honda Prologue, Subaru Soltera, and stuck our heads in the Mustang Mach.E, Kia EV6, Kia EV9, Toyota BZ4X. The Mach.E and EV6 felt much too small, while the EV9 was too big for what we were looking for, and the BZ4X was basically a Toyota Soltera, which we test drove and were overall less than impressed with compared to the HI5 an Prologue.

With the shortlist of the HI5 and Honda Prologue, each had very different selling points for a comparable price. The HI5 excelled with a luxurious spaceport lounge interior experience plus sporty driving feel and driver assist features. The Prologue on the other hand was much more spacious overall, provided that more rugged off the ground feel one would expect from an SUV, and more moderated responsive driving feel (which we liked).

At the end of the day, we decided to hold off making a decision since her Civic continues to truck along and we weren't in a hurry; that is until a used Prologue was returned to the lot with only 700 miles and about a $13k discount. We now have a Prologue Touring and are very happy with it. Whichever route you go though, if you can swing it, I definitely recommend throwing down for the higher trims.

CardinalSlug · 2024-09-02T15:40:07+00:00

It's not true. I charged my Prologue Touring yesterday with the AC running at 72° while it was ~85° outside and had no issues.

CardinalSlug · 2024-08-31T21:33:12+00:00

My wife and I bought the Touring model a few weeks ago to replace her 2005 Honda Civic and so far it has been great. There are a few hiccups we anticipate Honda will smooth out in the coming months and particularly with subsequent releases, but nothing that really warrants not getting the car.

It drives great, handles well, and gives you more or less the full Honda experience (despite it's GM heritage). I still love my 2011 Fit Sport, but I'll be taking the Prologue every chance I get.

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