I'll echo that "be careful what you wish for" idea. We have a wonderful math coach for our three middle schools, who helps not only the math teachers, but other content area teachers for integrating and reinforcing math skills. Then, all of a sudden we were told that department chairs would no longer be paid other than math, language arts, counseling and special ed. (although departments are still expected to have meetings, there are many tasks to do, etc.) Then we were told it was because WE wanted a language arts coach to replicate the wonderful things the math coach was doing, and they were going to take all the dept. chair $$ to pay the salary. Then they had to beg somebody to take the LA coach job. I can't find a single person who said they wanted to eliminate dept. chairs in exchange for an LA coach.
Also, when replying to a post, especially in digest mode, could you please trim all but the relevant points? Some of the digests I've received lately have gone on and on, often repeating the same information many, many times. Susie _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
