Lessons Learned

My biggest take-away is not anything too new….change is hard!  Over the past six months I have learned that every time I feel I am responding in a positive way to an expressed need from campus leaders, I will receive both positive and negative feedback.  The majority did not like the way we used to do CIPs.  We changed.  The majority had issue with the change.  Upon reflection I have to wonder if it is because they were not involved in the change process.  Although they were invited to preview the tool before we ever purchased it, not all of them did so.  I continuously struggle to find the balance between involving principals in the decision-making process for district issues and taking too much of their time to weigh in on district decisions.