Principal Movement Update

Looks like the assistant principal at TOPS, Jeanne Kuban, is moving to be the assistant principal at Kimball.  The new assistant principal at TOPS will be Sarah Morningstar who was an assistant principal at RBHS. 

I know Kimball is fairly large but I didn't know they needed an assistant principal.  So there's Bryant and Kimball with K-5s with assistant principals.  Does Lowell? 

Any movement at your school?

Comments

Anonymous said…
Lowell currently has an assistant principal and will be adding a third administrator - Marella Francois - on "special assignment" for next year. The info is posted on your last Friday Open Thread.

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Charlie Mas said…
Was Policy C54.00, Alternative Education, followed when the new assistant principal at TOPS was named?

The policy requires "School community participates in the selection of instructional, support and administrative staff."

Despite the previous superintendent's intentional misinterpretation of this policy, it requires community participation in the selection of principal and assistant principal.
Charlie Mas said…
Assistant principals are assigned to K-5 schools based on the WSS.

The Weighted Staffing Standards includes an assistant principal for any K-5 school with enrollment in excess of 450 students.
Floor Pie said…
We're at TOPS now and this is news to me. But I've been kind of out of the loop lately.
suep. said…
Charlie -- What's the WSS rule about the district assigning a third principal to a school?

Lowell may top 700 kids in the fall. Does that merit a third administrator? (Parents would rather have the counselor back!)

I don't know of any other K-5 that has 3 principals. Do you? Even Salmon Bay k-8 only has 2 (I think).

Sue p.
mirmac1 said…
Lafayette is losing its assistant principal to PathFinder K-8. Lafayette is over 450 students and busting at the seams.
Charlie Mas said…
For K-5 schools there is no WSS category bigger than the ">450 students" category.

There is no category - K-5, 6-8, 9-12, or K-8 - that has even two principals, let alone three. Elementary schools only get an assistant principal when they exceed 450 students.

See the WSS models for details. The link is in a previous comment.
Charlie Mas said…
Lafayette has a projected enrollment of 554, and is allocated a principal and an assistant principal.

Lowell has a projected enrollment of 579 and is also allocated a principal and an assistant principal.

TOPS has a projected enrollment of 500 and is also allocated a principal and an assistant principal.

Go here for the projected enrollment and staffing allocation for each school.
BagleyMom said…
Erika Ayer, currently Assistant Principal at Pathfinder, is moving to Bagley as Principal.
suep. said…
Blogger Charlie Mas said...

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Lowell has a projected enrollment of 579 and is also allocated a principal and an assistant principal.



Charlie, Lowell has a current enrollment of 581, and has heard it will get as many as 100 more students in the fall, bringing projected enrollment up to around 700.

-- Sue p.
Anonymous said…
Are option schools being permitted to cap their enrollments in a way that neighborhood schools can't? Or does tops have to take more students when Lowell, montlake, mcgilvre,, . . . have to.

zb
Central Mom said…
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Charlie Mas said…
I think we need to be deeply suspicious of the numbers coming out of Open Enrollment.

Historically, these numbers are wildly wrong. That said, these numbers, when adjusted, can be excellent predictors of the fall enrollment. Those adjustment calculations have not yet been made. Let's hold off for a month or so before we expend a lot of energy and anxiety freaking out about Lowell's fall enrollment.

If the revised projection is for 700 at the end of June, there will still be plenty of time to freak out.

Let's remember that it was false numbers from Open Enrollment that were used to promote a middle school APP split three years ago. That split was thwarted, in large part, because the crisis was false.

Let's also think of what the District's response to an overcrowded Lowell is likely to be: a further division in the APP cohort and three elementary APP locations: Thurgood Marshall, Lowell, and Broadview-Thomson. Do you really want to speed that future? Do you really want the push the District into that hasty action? Surely there is some better outcome that we could encourage them towards.
Central Mom said…
ZB, the option schools don't get to cap their enrollment (ask any concerned Thornton Creek parent). However some schools' enrollment is de facto capped by a small facility and no permitting allowed for portables.

The district, in fact, said it would use option school enrollment as one way to manage capacity issues at neighborhood schools, as in, "You'll get more kids and you'll like it".

This is different from the issue of the district last year intentionally UNDER projecting enrollment at some Option Schools and thus creating a "savings" in balancing the budget in the spring...and creating chaos in handling understaffed programs in the fall. In some schools this situation was fixed for the 2011-12 year, but I cannot vouch that it was a system-wide fix.
Charlie Mas said…
Option school enrollment can be capped.

Attendance area schools must accept every student in the attendance area who chooses to enroll (except continuing students enrolled at other attendance area schools).
Cory said…
Charlie, can you tell us more about the option school being able to cap enrollment? We're at Thornton Creek and we're busting at the seems. They keep sticking us with portables- no place to do small group work, no place to put backpacks, no place to go to the bathroom. We're way over our capacity but that doesn't seem to bother anyone downtown. We can barely fit in our cafeteria for an all school gathering (anything with parents/adults present means we can't meet all together). All of this overcrowding is in conflict with the whole philosophy of the school that stresses the importance of every adult trying to know every child in the building.

- Cory
Charlie Mas said…
@Cory,

Option school enrollment can be cut off at the functional capacity of the building.

The over-crowding at Thornton Creek is a result of the District's habit of changing the functional capacity of your building to make it whatever they want to make it.

While this appears to be thin protection from overcrowding, it is more than other nearby elementary schools have. Bryant and View Ridge must accept every student in their attendance area no matter how many students that might be - 400, 500, 600, or more without limit.
Chris S. said…
New SE exec director finally announced:

Dear principals, teachers and staff: (ALT: Dear Seattle Public Schools families and community:


Today I am appointing Brianna Dusseault as a second Executive Director of Schools to support Seattle Schools’ Southeast Region.

Ms. Dusseault, who currently serves as Executive Director of the Northwest Region, is a proven leader in turning around low-performing schools. She brings experience as a teacher and administrator in high- poverty schools and has researched the practices of high-achieving urban schools and successful turnaround strategies in other urban districts. She joined Seattle Public Schools in 2010 and she lives in the Southeast Region.

Ms. Dusseault will share responsibility for the performance of and support to Southeast schools with the current Southeast Region Executive Director of Schools, Michael Tolley. Together, they bring considerable experience to this region. Prior to being assigned as the Southeast’s Executive Director of Schools, Mr. Tolley served as SPS’s Director of High Schools for three years with notable successes. These include higher graduation rates, increased student access to advanced placement courses, a greater number of ninth-grade students earning at least five credits, and creation of a STEM program at Cleveland High School
cont'd...
Chris S. said…
cont'd:
I strongly believe that having a second Executive Director in this region is key to helping underperforming schools. Our Executive Directors of Schools work intensely with our principals to support teachers. Our principals must be the instructional leader in their schools, and the primarily job of the Executive Director of Schools is to support them in this work. We have high expectations that our principals will be instructional leaders, and the Executive Directors support them by being in every school, and every classroom.

Attached you will find a more in-depth plan for how these two Executive Directors of Schools will work with the Southeast community and Southeast schools.

The District is beginning a search for a new Executive Director of Schools for the Northwest region. Ms. Dusseault will remain engaged with those schools until her replacement is found, and the Northwest

schools and community should expect to still receive regular visits, communication and support from Ms. Dusseault through the end of the school year.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Susan Enfield, Ed.D.
Interim Superintendent
Seattle Public Schools
suep. said…
"...is a proven leader in turning around low-performing schools."

How so?

She was principal at a very small (50 kids total, was it?) charter school for two years.

She was one of the players at the center of the Ingraham principal firing fiasco, from which Enfield had to backtrack.

= Proven leader?

Baffling.

--Sue p.
Chris S. said…
This is probably good for Ingraham, at least. Unless they import another turnaround artist.
Anonymous said…
Charlie, it would be surprising if Lowell didn't have the rumored 700 enrollment at this point.

The school has been asked to add classrooms, building modifications have been put out for bid by the district, and the principal is requesting families notify the school if they aren't returning for next year (meaning every spot counts).
Anonymous said…
charlie - the link you provided on enrollment #s is dated 3/14 - open enrollment was over 4/15. many K families don't enroll until open enrollment, as well new spectrum/app applications are likely not reflected in these numbers. i have a feeling the numbers will change in those areas.

i'm also curious to see the matrix (i think i've seen this in the past ) of #applicants vs #that actually got a seat per each school by grade, spectrum vs gen, etc.

signed,
waiting for the real numbers
Jan said…
Waiting for the real numbers: I am not sure they will provide the matrix again. They did charts with projections of populations for each school, each grade, each program during the NSAP approval process, but when the real numbers (not the fakey ones they used to convince the board and lull parents) started coming in so radically different, they pulled down the old chart, saying that it was no longer "current."

I think it is time for a number of parents at ridiculously overcrowded schools to show up at a board meeting, in concert, and tell the board exactly what the emperor is wearing, and why it is so visually offensive!

I don't know exactly how to fix this -- but an attendance policy that does not allow the District to control school populations, regardless of safety, educational issues, or cost, is a flat-out bad policy.

(And yes, I realize anything they do at this point will add one more "broken promise" to Charlie's list -- because they promised no-holds-barred access to everyone within a geographical area until 2015, without ever stopping to think what the population movement ramifications might be to that pesky problem of not creating quality schools first.
Maureen said…
Wow Melissa, you knew about the TOPS asst principal by 12:51 on Wednesday. That is 4 hours and 5 minutes after the volunteer coordinator sent out an email for room reps to forward to TOPS families (Sorry to be late 7th grade! I've been at camp with the kids!)
Maureen said…
Charlie, Policy C54.00 was not followed with regards to the new TOPS Assistant Principal. Nevertheless, I am sure the TOPS community will welcome Ms. Morningstar. Personally, I think her experience with older kids will come in handy with understanding our middle schoolers.
Maureen said…
Sorry for the triple post-I'm playing catch up!

zb asked: Are option schools being permitted to cap their enrollments in a way that neighborhood schools can't? Or does tops have to take more students when Lowell, montlake, mcgilvre,, . . . have to.

Charlie said: Option school enrollment can be cut off at the functional capacity of the building.

In actuality, the District can choose the number of students it sends to an Option school in a way that is not (now) possible at an attendance area school.

Option schools can be purposely underenrolled if SPS decides not to send them students (even if there is a waitlist), and can be overenrolled if SPS decides to add more classrooms to the building.

As Central Mom said, The district, in fact, said it would use option school enrollment as one way to manage capacity issues at neighborhood schools

So, while Charlie is technically correct, that is only because SPS can choose to cut off enrollment at Option schools at any number that is convenient to them.
Anonymous said…
Again, Lowell is currently almost 100 students over capacity right now. In a few short weeks, that building will have construsction begin to tear out existing walls and put up other walls - to take the space that is there and cut it up into more areas for classroom space. Special education classrooms and related service rooms are to be eliminated or severely reduced in size and some of the special education classrooms are to be moved into
unsafe, small locations with far lesser accessibility. As the it is right now, it is particularly unsafe before and after school and at lunch recess. That cafeteria already is over fire code of 500 when they have an assembly. Unless something happens to make the district realize this is a very unsafe, discriminatory decision, the Lowell building will never be the same. Fed Up
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