The manager sweeps away distractions to teaching. Teachers have books and materials they need. Support services are in place for students with learning or behavior problems. Young elementary has 1,700 students and quiet hallways. Students who violate the zone three times are referred to her.
Teachers also send home weekly behavior reports.
At the end of each quarter, students with gold stars on their reports are eligible to win a bicycle in a PTA-sponsored raffle. Reorder priorities To ease the burden, both schools and the School Board need to reorder their spending priorities to give principals more helping hands, observers say. Chief Accountability Officer Philip Hansen urges elementary schools to consider using some of their discretionary money to add assistant principals to help with management chores or classroom observations and coaching. He urges high schools to budget an extra free period for department chairs so they can help with instructional leadership. High schools get one to four full-time assistant principals, depending on enrollment and other factors.