climate and culture
What Do Public School Principals Do? I Finally Found Out.
I have intermittently wondered what public school principals do.
Hillsborough County
instructional
Graduate Degrees are NOT for Teachers
in Hillsborough County Public Schools, there was no pay differential for teachers with graduate degrees
burnout
How to Cope While Working in Public Schools: Walk
When I started walking, it was to break out of the confines of the school campus.
African American
Black Assistant Principal plus White Principal Equals No
I do not see how any Black woman can thrive in that environment.
climate and culture
Drug Culture and When Principals Smoke Crack on a Public School Campus
They feen and vape in the bathrooms and even right in class under the desks!
burnout
Paid Leave: Hillsborough County Public Schools Says, Don't Use It
HCPS gives teachers on a 10-month contract 10 days of leave per school year
African American
When Your School Board is White AF
I know--on sight--that it is not the place for me.
African American
You Work at the Ghetto School
Hispanic tells you little of what the racial (or even ethnic) population is.
anxiety
Conference Nights: My Dreaded 12-Hour Shift
It is written into the teacher contract that you have to attend them
behavior
"Other Duties As Assigned" in Public Schools: Lunch
Coming from being a District-based worker, I had forgotten about school-based duties.
African American
Interviews Are Made Up of Lies: Your Principal Just Needs Another Body for Her Cemetery
I was caught off guard by a panel-styled interview with a host of women.
at-will
Termination vs. Resignation
Being terminated in K-12 education seems to have minimal effect on getting another job