Professional+Climate

= PROFESSIONAL CLIMATE =

Many teachers not content with their job Many good teachers, who love to teach, feel very stressed out at work Improve quality of teaching competence Workload balance Time for collaboration Not everyone pulling weight Feeling a part of a a larger organization Shared decision-making everyone feels valued for their contribution Increase pride in our school including its appearance -Isolation --public recognition of positive achievements A teacher's most important function should be to plan lessons, teach those lessons and evaluate student progress. The school needs to do much more to allow teachers to perform their primary functions. Our attendance policies clearly do not work, since 1/3 of our studetns miss over five days. And yet our teachers and administrators spend an an enormous amount of time on useless paperwork. This wasted time takes away from other important duties.
 * Areas of Concern:**

Improve teacher morale Find out what areas they are dissatisfied with (data from teacher survey and new surveys) Collect more data! Empower school employees to create a solution to their problems Increase levels of satisfaction on teacher survey Collaborative team (another climate team) to monitor -to increase ACR community and strengthen relationships Increase time for teachers to do collaborative planning Use technology to streamline phone contact with parents Reduce paperwork
 * SIP Objectives:**

Identify areas of dissatisfaction through surveys and questionnaires More time for collaborating: make use of and provide more early release days -Teacher day activities/games-teamwork building -Teacher share in faculty meetings-of success/highlights revisit our attendance policy to cut down on unnecessay paperwork Use early release days more frequently to allow teachers to work collaboratively Eliminate mentoring as this just takes away from teachers' primary functions. -There should be consquences and incentives for faculty -Admin. confronts those teachers who are ineffective
 * Strategies:**

focus on collaboration within PLCs Help provide training for effective classrooms -faculty sports league -Teach positivity/constructive criticism -Our own collaborative teaming--we learn from each other in collaborative groups
 * Professional Development:**

Electronic/Web-based climate survey Creative answer choices to elicit a better response
 * Technology:**