Requiring teaching experience in the class room for principals/adminstrators
OCTOBER 20, 2010
After a conversation with Sabrina within the last week, I started thinking deeply about education policy in regards to state mandates on administrative certifications as well as local district requirements. Locations vary widely in requiring administrators to have a certain length of time teaching and to be deemed expert teachers before climbing the ranks of administration.
I thought about ballot initiatives, organizing, lobbying and various other means of enacting education policy to ensure that we prevent the ranks of leadership growing thicker with individuals who spent either little or no time in a classroom. As I pondered this, I remembered back a ways to a conversation with an administrator who suggested that I seek out an
