It could mean that the school was clean, or it could be bad. We don't know. And we haven't gotten immediate feedback from our external partner, the University of Illinois Center for Literary. They came to observe, and we haven't been told what they found, either, so we continue to do what we've been doing. The perception out there is, you're not good teachers because you're on probation.
Teachers are tired of working hard and being perceived in a negative way.
This year, we also have a Saturday class for our 6th-graders for 40 minutes to an hour. In addition, our principal tells us what's going on, and anything we hear, we tell him. And although we had a leadership team, now we meet regularly. In terms of being told to do specific things, teachers have been told to have lesson plans done on time. On occasion, a lesson plan may have been turned in a day late, but not now.