992.4.6 From the Principal Files: The Principal Shortage -- What Can Schools Do to Attract a New Generation of School Leaders?

From the Principal Files: The Principal Shortage -- What Can Schools Do to Attract a New Generation of School Leaders?
校長檔案：校長短缺--學校應該做什麼來吸引新一代的學校領導者？

More Ideas for Attracting Principals

用來吸引校長的更多想法

The Education World "Principal Files" principals have plenty of ideas for countering the principal shortage. Following are a handful of their unique suggestions:

Reconfigure the school day. 重新分配在學校的時間
校長應對學校行政人員負起責任，將他們視為利害關係人，持續讓他們了解並從事創造思考，並且他們有責任要修正願景。平常老師的時間用來教學，但是沒有時間來完成這些團體工作，重新修改在學校的工作時間，如果老師每天工作八小時就可以有時間來做這些事情。

Currently, principals are accountable for involving their staff as stakeholders, keeping them informed, engaging them in creative thinking, and holding them responsible for implementing the vision. Time is provided for teaching, but there is no time to accomplish those group tasks. Reworking the school day so teachers work an eight-hour day would create time to do that.
    -- Lyn McCarty, Grant Joint Union High School District, Sacramento, California

Educate lawmakers. 教育的立法者
必須有人去使立法者重視他們立法通過的關於員工和財政的法律，法律常常沒有經過思考這些結果對校長、老師和其他學校員工的衝擊就通過了。

Somebody needs "to enlighten lawmakers about the personnel and financial ramifications" of the laws they pass. So often laws are passed without any thought for those ramifications and how they impact principals, teachers, and other school personnel.
    -- Ernest Elliott, Hacker Middle School, Mountain Home, Idaho

Set staff-to-administrator ratios 設立員工和管理者對應的比率
我們常常聽到小班教學的好處，尤其是在低年級，那麼對於管理者和學校規模的標準呢?學生和管理者的比率，或是員工和管理者的比率，思考這方面的問題是有幫助的。

We often hear about the benefits of smaller class size, especially in the early grades. How about school-size standards for administrators? A pupil-to-administrator ratio, or a staff-to-administrator ratio, would be helpful.
    -- Jon Romeo, Bradford Elementary School, Westerly, Rhode Island

Set school-size standards. 設立學校規模大小的標準
治理最大的學校規模，不超過300個學生，使學校更具個人、私人化。

Mandate a maximum school size, not to exceed 300 or so students, to make schools more personal.
    -- Lucie Boyadjian, Glen Oaks School, Hickory Hills, Illinois

Allow more leverage in staffing decisions. (使校長)對員工選擇更具有影響力

公會很困難去終止不適任老師，如果校長要對老師的不好表現負責任，他們應該擁有對老師(的去留)的義務責任，學校董事必須支持校長除去不適任的老師

Unions make terminating teachers who perform poorly very difficult. If principals are accountable for poor performance, they need to be able to hold teachers accountable. School boards need to support principals in getting rid of marginal teachers.
    --Alan Seay, Iowa Park (Texas) High School

Add support staff. 增加可以提供幫助的員工
需要額外的員工成員，像是社工、學校諮商師來協助眾多、多樣化的學生族群。
Additional staff members -- such as social workers and school counselors -- are needed to assist with the diverse student population.
    -- Lucie Boyadjian, Glen Oaks School, Hickory Hills, Illinois

Organize better. 更好的組織
校長必須做更好的組織工作，他們需要一個響亮的集體聲音讓大家注意到，校長扮演了教育領導者的關鍵性角色。
Principals need to do a better job of organizing. They need a loud collective voice to draw attention to the critical role principals play as instructional leaders.
    -- Anonymous principal