The SAMs Project

Principal Morrow is participating in a national study concerning use of time.

Dear Parents,

Our school is participating in a national study concerning principal use of time. As a principal I try to make intructional work my priority but management duties sometimes get in the way. A data collector will be shadowing me the week of October 12. Every five minutes my "shadow" will take data on what I am doing. The data collector can't talk to me or anyone else. The data collector will carry a clipboard eith a stop watch and will try to be as "invisible" as possible and not disrupt our work. Surveys with randomly selected students in our highest grade level and parents to help determine how people in our school view the role of a principal. A survey form will be given to all teachers, too.

I will receive the results of the data collection ten days later and will work with my SAM (Monica Wesley) to increase the percentage of time I spend on instruction.

Next year we will repeat the data collection process to see how much progress I have made.

Thanks for your help,