Monday's Class was Intriguing!

After reading the posts I have to agree with most of the comments. I really find the information from class extremely interesting and so beneficial to a teacher, department head or future principal. We have touched on so many areas and I feel they all are so important. I, like others loved looking at the case studies. It is so interesting to hear how others feel and what the "real" answers are. I also liked sorting through all the information gathered from the data sheets. Amazing how much information you can pull from a district we know nothing about. Finally, I am really interested in learning more about mentoring. I really hope our district continues to nurture the idea of mentoring; really great things can happen when we work together. I know when I started in RISD #41 my mentor was fabulous. I never felt like he thought it was a burden and always asked if he could help more; this was a great feeling being a new teacher in a big district. I hope this program continues for future newbies in the RISD.