Schoolization

The biggest drawback of the regular Catholic school is siloization.

Our normal Catholic elementary school is a (T)K-8 with one teacher per grade, some aides in the younger, and hopefully 25+ kids per room. The beauty here is that everyone is fully employed. The danger here is everyone is fully employed.

If we cannot get out of our silos and see what everyone is doing in their rooms that is successful, that is continuable from the grade below us and to the grade above us, than we are taking our rooms and making them the whole school for our students. The job of a principal is to ensure that this does not happen.

It comes from pineappling, for sure, but more importantly, it comes from sticking our heads together.

As Brett Bowers puts it:

What high-leverage practices are in place on your campus to promote positive student outcomes? Of them, which are individual teacher practices? Which are systemic? How can we cross the divide, moving impactful practices from select classrooms to all classrooms? #keyquestions

If we can have conversations centered on what works and then schoolizate that, than we break free of our silos and seek success for our students. If we refuse to schoolizate what is successful, than we a

re impeding progress and not contributing to the culture of success our school needs.

On the docket for an upcoming faculty meeting!