{"id":756,"date":"2012-01-31T13:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2012-01-31T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:41:47","slug":"feeling-pressures-as-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Pressures as a Leader ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building principals and assistant principals have been described as having one of the most difficult and least envious jobs in education.\u00a0 Mel Riddle, in a blog posted in the NASSP Febuary issue of <em>NewsLeader <\/em>commented &#8220;When I used to tell people that I was a high school principal, they would look at me as if I had just landed from Mars.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasspblogs.org\/principaldifference1\">www.nasspblogs.org\/principaldifference1<\/a>\u00a0 &#8220;Being a principal is a difficult job even in the best times. In times of shrinking budgets, it can be a nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds familar to you, then you are not alone.\u00a0 A recent survey in California, &#8220;Competing Pressures Put Strain on School Principals Study Shows&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/02\/competing-pressures-put-strain-on-school-study\/\">www.vcstar.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/02\/competing-pressures-put-strain-on-school-study\/<\/a>\u00a0covers the issues that Virginia building administrators also encounter in their daily routines. In California, shrinking budgets and mounting responsibilities create pressures that make the job untenable.\u00a0\u00a0 A survey of the more than 600 principals in California listed a lack of time as a barrier to improving teacher quality for nearly one-third of the principals. Limited time and limited resources seem to be universal issues at either end of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>If you read both of these commentaries, you will not find a solution to the issues you may face with tight time frames, extensive paperwork and too few hours in a day. The good news is that other administrators across the nation are also busy doing the best they can for students and staff and hopefully proud of their contribution to their\u00a0communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building principals and assistant principals have been described as having one of the most difficult and least envious jobs in education.\u00a0 Mel Riddle, in a blog posted in the NASSP Febuary issue of NewsLeader commented &#8220;When I used to tell people that I was a high school principal, they would look at me as if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=756\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48,74,75],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-funding","tag-leadership-concerns","tag-work-environment","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}