Brandy Tackett, MA.ed., M.Ed.
Organization and Resource Management
Standard 5: Learning Environment
Standard 8: School Management
Education leaders manage the school organizations to optimize the learning environment for students and staff. They develop plans for effective fiscal, human, and resource management to promote student learning and performance. They involve district leadership, school board, community stakeholders, and staff in setting priorities based on needs-assessment, research-based data, effective problem solving, consensus building, and conflict resolution to align resources with organizational vision and performance goals.
USF EDA 6945 Administrative Practicum: Educational Leadership & Policy Studies: Description of Program Domains and Corresponding Florida Principal Leadership Standards (FPLS.)
Retaining Teachers in High Poverty Schools
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The Florida Department of Education mandates make it very challenging to feel successful in a Title I school. The lives of the learners, their academic needs, as well as the achievement gaps that a teacher in a Title I school has to close make it a very challenging job. Some would argue whether it is even possible for a first year teacher to feel successful under these circumstances. As a result of these challenges, there are high mobility rates amongst teachers in a Title I school. This can be detrimental because we continue to place the least experienced teachers with the most fragile learners and administrators are faced with having to support new teachers on a continual basis.
I studied a group of first year teachers in Title I schools to identify their greatest struggles and what did or almost did cause them to leave the Title I school. I also engaged conversation to identify what they felt could have been done to relieve some of the pressure they felt they were under in an effort to retain teachers in a Title I school.