Sixth, a lack of parental involvement is often the first excuse for poor performance. Effective principals overcome this excuse by extending the mission of the school into the home. High-performing schools establish contracts with parents to support their children's efforts to learn. Parents must be taught to read to their children, check homework, and ask them how they did on assignments. The seventh element listed for a highly effective, successful school is that effort creates ability.
School is hard work, and great principals demand that their students work hard.
No student is advanced without a clear demonstration of mastery. They expect the same of their teachers. Education is an often discussed and hotly debated issue in the Legislature, in school districts, and in communities all over California. We often discuss and back theories that may or may not work. We brainstorm on ideas of how to better an educational system that was once the envy of the other 49 states and nations around the world.