From the Principal Files: The Principal Shortage -- What Can Schools Do to Attract a New Generation of School Leaders?
校長檔案：校長短缺--學校應該做什麼來吸引新一代的學校領導者？
校長檔案：校長短缺--學校應該做什麼來吸引新一代的學校領導者？
From time to time, Education World updates and reposts a previously published article that we think might be of interest to administrators. We hope you find this recently updated article to be of value.
有時候，Education World更新並回顧一些先前認為校長有趣的出版文章，我們希望讀者能找到有價值的新文章。
Education World asked our "Principal Files" principals to suggest some ideas that might help grow the shrinking pool of qualified school leaders. Today, we share their responses! Included: Read their replies -- some common sense, others provocative!
所以今日Education World從過去的校長檔案中，找出其中的校長，請他們給予一些幫助校長的意見。
"The Correlates of Effective Schools research found that the principal was the single most-important contributing factor to the success of an effective school," Alan Seay, principal at Iowa Park (Texas) High School, told Education World. "That's why it's critical for schools to be able to attract good people to the principalship -- and to keep them there."
從「有效能學校之相關因素」研究中，可從結論得知，校長本人是在達成有效能學校中最重要的貢獻因子。
How can school systems make the principal's job more manageable? How can they attract educators who might make exceptional principals? Education World posed those questions recently to our Principal Files principals. They had plenty of ideas -- common sense ideas and provocative ones too!
那麼學校的系統如何使校長工作更易於管理，或吸引特殊的校長呢？訪談校長的結果是，他們會有很多的想法，包括一般的想法及挑釁的想法。
Did you miss yesterday's Education World article, The Principal Shortage -- Why Doesn't Anybody Want the Job? In that story, Education World P-Files principals shared their thoughts about the reasons for the principal shortage. They discussed many of the important issues school principals face today. Not surprisingly, those issues also happen to be some of the biggest obstacles to recruiting educators who might consider administration!
從過去的文章「校長短缺--為什麼沒人要當校長？」得知很多重要的原因，他們討論許多原因都是今日校長所面臨的重要議題。而很多原因已經發生成為校長招聘的重大阻礙。
OF COURSE, MONEY IS AN ISSUE
薪水就是一項原因
Raising salaries for school administrators is a must if schools are to make the principalship more attractive to a new generation of school leaders. "Increased pay would send a message that society values the work of the principal," Chris Rose, principal at Plymouth School in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia (Canada), told Education World.
"I know salary does not make a good leader, much less a great leader," said Betty Peltier, principal at Southdown Elementary School in Houma, Louisiana, "but teachers with leadership ability see the long hours and the extent of the principal's job and opt for other avenues of leadership. Each year, the gap between the principal's salary and the teacher's salary narrows."
假如學校能讓校長吸引更多新世代的學校領導者，那麼校長就應該加薪，一位校長說「給校長加薪會傳達給社會一個訊息，讓社會知道校長是重要的人物」。而另一位校長說「錢沒辦法造就一個好的領導者，更不用說偉大的領袖。但是有領導能力的教師經歷長時間和某程度的校長工作，以及其他途徑的領導方式。每一年校長和教師薪水的差距是愈來愈小。
The principal shortage might be a good thing, according to principal Anthony Pallija Jr. "It's nice to be in demand for a change!" he said. "We are the CEOs of our buildings," Pallija, principal at North Canton Hoover High School in North Canton, Ohio, told Education World. "We run million-dollar schools, with hundreds of staff and thousands of students, parents, and community members."
一位校長認為校長短缺是件好事，他說「這是改變的良好機會，因為我們猶如學校的執行長！」而另一位校長也說「我們經營百萬美金的學校，當中有著成千上百的教職員師、學生、家長和社區成員。」
Pallija's point: Principals ought to be compensated more like the CEOs they are!
"All three levels of government -- federal, state, and local -- need to make a concerted effort to raise the compensation of principals so that it is competitive with that of other mid-level managers," added Alan Seay.
Pallija校長指出：校長應當被視為如企業的執行長般獲得相等的薪水！
各級政府都應致力於提升校長的薪水，使校長有別於其他的中階管理者。
"It's about time educators started getting the kind of pay that athletes do," said Nancy Ondrasik, assistant principal at Beatty Warren Middle School in Warren, Pennsylvania. "We train the children; then they look up to athletes who engage in all the types of behavior that we have trained them not to do! And who gets the big money?"
Revising job descriptions so school secretaries become office managers and raising their salaries is one solution several P-Files principals advocated. "That would relieve the principal of much of the administrative trivia that crowds the desk each day," suggested Helene Dykes, principal at Tijeras Creek Elementary, in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
Raising the salaries of support staff is just the first step, however. The P-Files principals see many other ways school districts and states can help relieve the principal shortage.
修改工作內容並提升學校助理的薪水是其中一種解決辦法，一位校長說「加薪並重新調整工作，可以減輕例行事務的負擔」但是提高員工薪水只是第一步而已，下面我們還會看到其他可以減輕校長短缺問題的方法
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