The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) recognizes the essential role that school leadership teams play in supporting effective instruction, creating a safe and inclusive school culture, and maintaining systems and communicating in ways that set students, families, and teachers up for success. Assistant principals (APs) are central to the day-to-day work of running a successful school. This guidebook provides a practical, flexible, and optional tool districts and principals can use to give real-time feedback to APs.
Because most APs prepare for their entrance into school leadership through leadership certification programs that are focused on preparing future principals, their training doesn’t always prepare them for the unique challenges of their role. The Optional AP Evaluation process supports APs to grow where they are and prepares them to be ready for a principal position while serving the needs of the school. Equally importantly, using this process will generate meaningful conversations between a school's principal and AP(s) that can create clarity of purpose and agreement upon steps to support improved teaching and learning.
Assistant Principal Evaluation Process
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