Team Meeting Reflection

As I reflect on my internship I realize it actually started during the summer, my principal asked that I be involved in the Summer Leadership meetings. The school representatives for these meetings were the principal who is a first-year principal with a high school background, the assistant principal who is a first-year administrator and another assistant principal who has spend most of his time in high school, the multi-tiered system of support coach, who is also new to the school and me. This combination was very interesting because I was the only one who had any experience at the school. This combination of administrators has made my internship a bit difficult, simply because they are learning their own roles and responsibilities, so it makes it difficult for them to assign me any of those roles and responsibilities. I have often felt as they feel I am over- stepping my boundaries. For example, the principal wanted me to work with buses, the first-year assistant principal quickly said no, because she needed to learn and develop a system, therefore I was assigned the special education buses and afterschool buses only. My role …show more content…
It has its pros and cons, but I must say if I were principal I would have teams in sixth and seventh grade but not eighth grade. Two years ago, I pushed to have a time where teams met to discuss student concerns. There was so much of a push for content PLC meetings that teachers that taught the same students never had time to discuss the student as a whole. There were times that a student was failing three of the core classes, but due to the fact that the teachers didn’t meet as a team no one would realize it until it was too late. Now the MTSS coach, counselor, grade level administrator and I meet with every team twice a month to focus on the students who are failing, having discipline issues or any problem at all. Standard