What is it that principals do over the summer?
It seems a mystery, with no students and teachers in the building...what in the world could the principal possibly be doing inside those walls? During the summer months while school is out, school is really beginning. As quickly as the year ends and the checklists for closing the year out are met, the new year is already underway. It is a time for finalizing the schedule, sending out transcripts for recent graduates, finalizing review of handbooks from the suggestions for changes throughout the year, ordering supplies in preparation for the upcoming school year (as the new budget opens on July 1), hiring, preparation of classroom changes, and sending teachers and administration to a variety of trainings and meetings to prepare for new policies and procedures for the upcoming school year. Teachers are in and out as they prepare to make adjustments in their unit/lesson plans and redesign their rooms to accommodate their new ideas and learning for serving Next Generation Learners.