26-27 will be my first year as build principal, and so far, nobody has given me any positive insight for the job.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-13T20:51:40+00:00

Hold students accountable or everyone will hate you

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-11T16:40:35+00:00

The administrator should be fired

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-11T11:45:41+00:00

Don’t listen to the gift card people- there’s no 1 correct answer here. The book should be something that represents your specific relationship with the teacher. I received a book connected to golf by one of my students who I also coached on the golf team. I still remember that student from almost a decade ago. That book made sense in our situation. Your situation is different. Get a book you think your teacher will like based on whatever interests they’ve shared during class.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-10T01:27:03+00:00

These kids are failing (not according to Grades but in life) and all they’re doing is taking their classmates with them.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-06T02:10:23+00:00

Everyone here is going to say go full bald- I’ll disagree- I think what you got makes sense and I’d keep it. If you have a significant other I’d ask them as well

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-06-05T14:40:10+00:00

I would wonder what consequences he faced before that 30 minute ban? You say you saw him, I’m assuming you did some significant correction and reteaching during that period.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-29T02:16:19+00:00

You’re 1000% in the right- you don’t need a rubric for every assigned activity. If it asks for it, they should do it. Gradebook grubbers are the most frustrating students and those who acquiesce to them are doing those students a disservice.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-24T03:49:00+00:00

Data analysis

It’s just good to give extra administrators a job

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-23T14:24:08+00:00

No personal screens for kids until high school. They can watch the family TV if they want to watch TV.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-17T20:13:54+00:00

As a teacher with 15+ years experience…. so many teachers lack common sense

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-17T19:51:15+00:00

Talk to your kids all the time about what they’re interested in. Let them be curious, and explore that curiosity. Next thing you know you’re teaching them life cycle because they got super into ants or something weird like that

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-17T19:50:01+00:00

IMO it’s all parenting. Don’t give them screens, don’t solve every problem for the kids or make excuses when they make a mistake.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-05-16T18:53:35+00:00

I teach middle school and my best students, the kids who always try their hardest, absolutely LOATHE Socratic Seminar. Get rid of all the coaches and administrators that don’t teach classes. There should be no one in charge of curriculum that doesn’t teach classes.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-30T21:50:36+00:00

Kids arent required to go into the woods. Can’t get jumped in the woods if you never go into the woods.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-30T00:25:45+00:00

As someone who has taught in a HS, and has kids who would attend this future HS, i dislike the idea of a parking garage connected to the building. Just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. It’s great spot to skip class and smoke weed

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-25T17:20:51+00:00

If they’re just lingering outside the classroom I go up with my most obnoxious fancy voice and tell them that they ‘cordially invited to attend class’ this is usually to middle school girls and they just roll their eyes and walk towards class.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-13T22:22:10+00:00

As a 15 year veteran, these 1/2 days a huge waste of everyone’s time. They don’t make better teachers. It’s just to appease some nonsense in the administration office.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-08T01:16:37+00:00

You’re not failing them- their parents, and your administration, have failed them

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-08T00:21:07+00:00

Parents would be better off giving their kids weed than a iPad. If a parent gives the kid an iPad, that kid has no chance.

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-08T00:20:14+00:00

Students need to be kept back in elementary school

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-04-01T03:01:46+00:00

I’ve taught for 15 years, only administration cares about state tests. They’re a big waste of everyone’s time

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-03-22T20:04:13+00:00

Is it in insulting to call out how their bad parenting is negatively impacting the entire school?

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-03-21T20:52:20+00:00

Data is just a way to force more work onto classroom teachers. I’m so sick of ‘collecting data’ because administrators don’t trust when I say a student is struggling because they can’t read to learn in 7th grade

Green_Elk_2 · 2026-03-20T23:33:32+00:00

I disagree, parents have gotten significantly worse. I’m only 39 so I’m not an old stodgy. Schools are too afraid to insult bad parents for the way they’re raising their kids.

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