Why A Great Principal Burned Out – And What Might Have Helped (Ellie Herman)
Taken from “About” in her blog:
My name is Ellie Herman. If you want to find out what I’m doing here and why, click here on why I’m writing this blog. I’ve been working on this project since the beginning of September….
As for my bio, I’m a writer and English teacher. From 2007 to 2013, I taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th grade Composition at a charter high school in South Los Angeles.
Before that, I was a writer/producer for many TV shows, including The Riches, Desperate Housewives, Chicago Hope and Newhart. My fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review and the O.Henry Awards Collection.
I attended public schools in Winnetka, Illinois from kindergarten through high school and graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in English. I have a teaching credential from Cal State Northridge. My three children attended Oakwood School, a private school in the San Fernando Valley. My husband, David Levinson, is a writer who runs the non-profit Big Sunday. Our basset hound, Lou, appears ineducable, having channeled all of his energy into his good looks. We live in Los Angeles.
Posted on July 11, 2014
Boxes crowd the hallways, moving in and moving out. I’m in an empty office at Animo Phillis Wheatley Middle School in South L.A. talking to Principal Nat Pickering, who has resigned after three years so that he can go back to being a teacher. Back when I was teaching, I worked with him; he was a history teacher for years before he became Assistant Principal of our school. I will forever be Why A Great Principal Burned Out – And What Might Have Helped (Ellie Herman) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: