Today was an in-service day. It was really good for me to see this side of teaching. I learned a lot of names over the course of the day, and I also got a really good idea of many staff personalities. While all of the teachers I talked to knew and discussed how some kind of accreditation is important, but a lot of them resented the specific types of work that went into this accreditation, and the process itself. To be sure, the “indicators” that the school had to justify, one by one, were sometimes poorly worded or even horribly grammatically inaccurate. And nobody was excited about spending their Friday in a stressful library meeting. Tensions were definitely running high at certain points.
I’ve gained immense amount of insight about the accreditation process itself. The school had to form a list of core beliefs. One issue that came up was that we were paring down a list of core beliefs that had been decided upon by both school staff and community members. Because of the narrowing the staff had already done, we had to work on a way to reassure that the core values were still a collaborative project. All-in-all, it was an incredibly valuable experience.
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