Jun

29

Next Steps

June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

We’re camping this weekend and that always provides me with lots of time to read, reflect and think. As I’m reading everything from education journals to women’s magazines, I’m thinking a lot about my new role at Gowanda. Officially, I start July 1 and even then, it’ll probably take us the summer to hire my [...]

Jun

27

What Makes A Success Story?

June 27, 2007 | 6 Comments

On July 1, I’ll have to change the header at the top of this blog to say “Kimberly Moritz, Assistant Superintendent, talks about school management, student achievement, and life in G-Town.”
I’ve been advised that the other opportunity (yesterday’s blog post) may have been the smarter move as far as finding professional “success”, that it may have been [...]

Jun

26

Making the Right Career Move

June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

Imagine you have a decision to make. You can either stay in your current job as a high school principal, one in which you find yourself happy and successful or you can move to a new job as a superintendent, accepting new challenges and learning an entirely new position.
Now let’s complicate the decision even more. [...]

Jun

26

Edublogs Back In Business

June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

This past week Edublogs, our host site, has been down as they transfer to a new server. What have I learned from this time without the blog? That writing here has definitely become a professional routine, something that I missed. I haven’t been able to write about our commencement ceremony, our Science Regents results, or [...]

Jun

20

The Complicated Cohort Story

June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

I’d like to clarify all of the reporting of data that readers see. There are two ways that we are constantly looking at data–by school year and by cohort.
As a principal, I compare how we did on our Regents exams and graduation rate by school year. That’s what I reported in my earlier post, Winding Down. [...]

Jun

20

Winding Down

June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

We’re winding down now with only one Regents exam left tomorrow, Physics. Our results are pouring in, seniors on the cusp are being notified about graduation, and commencement is the day after tomorrow.
After two-three manic weeks, winding down feels great. Our new hires should be approved at the BOE tonight, our summer school appointments are going [...]

Jun

18

Superintendent’s First Post

June 18, 2007 | 4 Comments

Here is the link to our superintendent’s new blog and his first post. Please consider leaving a comment–anyone blogging knows that’s the juice that keeps us writing.
He picks a controversial topic in our community right off the bat–seems he’s off to a great start.

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Jun

14

Regrets

June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

I saw one of our senior “pranksters” today. He came in to take a test and apologized to me. We talked for a while. He was defeated and beaten. He’s endured county jail, the loss of friends, suspension from school and the loss of the commencement ceremony.
The day before the smoke bomb  he was a carefree senior [...]

Jun

10

Teaching to Leading

June 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

My husband and I attended a retirement party this weekend. Two teachers from Randolph, a neighboring district where I was previously high school principal, were honored at a dinner.As is typical at a retirement party, colleagues, family and friends came forward to speak for each of our retirees. Their comments were heart felt, touching and funny. [...]

Jun

10

Senior Pranks, Part 3

June 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

Amazing as it may sound, there are some things about this week’s senior pranks that made me very happy.
Partially because we have good relationships with our students and partially because the seniors really want to have a picnic on Monday, we know who pulled the pranks and they are receiving consequences. How do we know?
Students told [...]

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