Fall 2013 Newsletter - Louisiana Association of Principals

Association
of
Principals
Volume XXIV, Number 1
Fall 2013
The School Bell Has Rung!!
Mission Statement: To provide quality School-based Administrative Leadership for Louisiana schools through Professional Development,
Legislation and Member Services.
LAP Office
E-mail:
[email protected]
103 Crawford St. Winnfield, LA 71483
(318) 648-2999  800-238-9371  FAX (318) 648-2990
Web Site:
www.laprincipals.org
Ajit “AJ” Pethe
Benjamin A. Necaise
Luling Elem.
St. Charles Parish
West Feliciana Middle
West Feliciana Parish
Join us at LAP’s 62nd Annual Conference, September. 15-16, at the Baton Rouge
Hilton to honor our Principals of the Year! It’s not too late to register! Register today!
For more information, go to www.laprincipals.org.
Members:
Conference Registration
Members:
$200
Non-Members:
$400
New Memberships Only & Conf. Reg.: $350
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Retired Members:
$75
NAME: _________________________________________________
POSITION: ______________________________________________
SCHOOL: _______________________________________________
SCHOOL ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________________________
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E-MAIL: __________________________________________________ PARISH:____________________________
TEAM MEMBERS (Up to 3 persons): (1)___________________________ (2)______________________________
(3)___________________________
Guest Registration: $30 Awards Luncheon
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Checks Must Be Sent With Registration
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President’s Message
The 2013-2014 school year has
begun! I hope each of you had a
Joanne Hood
smooth opening. The beginning of
each school year can be a stressful and busy time of year.
As we begin our second year with the new teacher
evaluation system, I am confident that the administrators
of Louisiana are more prepared to implement COMPASS
effectively. With the modifications that have been made,
the process seems to be promising and a more accurate
evaluation of teachers and leaders. Common Core State
Standards are here and I know the teachers in each of our
schools are doing an outstanding job learning and
teaching the new curriculum. The shifts that must occur
in our classrooms will prepare our students for higher
education. In ELA/Literacy, teachers must build
knowledge through content-rich nonfiction. Reading,
writing, and speaking will be grounded in evidence from
both literary and informational text. Students will have
regular practice with complex text and its academic
language. This will enable our students to demonstrate
independence, build strong content knowledge, respond
to varying demands of audience, task, purpose and
discipline, comprehend as well as critique, value
evidence, use technology and digital media strategically
and capably, and come to understand other perspectives
and cultures. In the area of mathematics, teachers must
focus strongly where the standards focus. There will be
coherence across grades and major topics within grades
will be linked. Rigor will be increased by pursuing
conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency,
and application with equal intensity. This will enable our
students to make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them, reason abstractly and quantitatively,
construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of
others, model with mathematics, use appropriate tools
strategically, attend to precision, look for and make use of
structure, and look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning. The tasks seem large but I know the educators
of Louisiana are ready for the task.
I want to welcome our new executive director, Debra
Schum! Her experience and vast amount of knowledge
will be a definite asset to our organization. I am confident
that she will assist us in continuing to make the Louisiana
Association of Principals an effective voice for the
administrators in our state! Be sure to visit the LAP
website to stay up to date and do not hesitate to contact
the LAP office if we can be of assistance. Joanne
Dana Gros
South Lafourche High
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From The Desk of The
Debra Schum
I hope that everyone had a good start to the
2013-14 school year and that you had a chance to
rest and re-energize over the summer. As one of my
first tasks as the new LAP executive director, I
attended the BESE meeting on August 14th and am
more convinced than ever that principals need an
advocate organization to make sure their voices are
heard. During the meeting they announced that they
were establishing an MFP task force that would
begin meeting September 4th and continue through
December and that the members of the committee
could be found online. I immediately looked up the
committee and found the list of members designated
by the following groups: Louisiana School Boards
Association, APEL, LAE, LFT, CABL, LABI,
PAR, but no mention of LAP. The Board did
appoint additional members that included one
principal (Ruston High School) as well as 2
Superintendents, a charter school representative, a
K-12 teacher and 2 public school parents This
taskforce is likely to recommend how MFP dollars
will be spent in the future and will have a direct
effect on school programs and funding. I would
think that they would recognize that Principals/LAP
should be a key stakeholder in this revamping
process. I spoke with BESE President Chas Roemer
and asked him to add an LAP representative to the
task force and will keep you posted on the process.
In the meantime I plan on attending all of the MFP
taskforce meetings to make sure that LAP is
represented.
Also, during Superintendent John White’s
address to board members he talked about how he
had met with various groups regarding
implementation of the common core,
approximately 2000 teacher leaders and a group of
Superintendents, but did not mention meeting with
principals as a group. With a new year of Compass,
common core and new assessments for students it is
more important than ever that your voice is heard.
Please remember to renew your membership--LAP is YOUR organization and it will only be as
strong as YOU make it! Don’t forget about the
Annual Principals Conference on September 15th
and 16th at the Capitol Hilton in Baton Rouge
(Registration is still open!)
I look forward to hearing from you and I want
you to know how excited I am to have the
opportunity to serve school site administrators and
to work with you to make sure that principals’
voices are heard. Debra
July 10-12, 2014
SAVE THE DATE!!!
Nashville, Tennessee
19TH ANNUAL CLERICAL CONFERENCE
DECEMBER 10, 2013, BATON ROUGE
Save the Date!!
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Jennifer Coriell
Cayce Booher
North Polk Elem.
Vernon Parish
Youngsville Middle
Lafayette Parish
For more information, visit us on the web at
www.laprincipals.org
Attention Assistant Principals!
Not jus
2013 Assistant Principal’s Conference
October 17—18, 2013
Hilton Capitol Center
Baton Rouge
Members:
Conference Registration
Pre-registration:
After Sept. 27
Non-Members:
$125
$150
$200
t for A
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NAME:
SCHOOL:
POSITION:
ADDRESS:
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SCHOOL PHONE:
FAX NUMBER:
E-MAIL:
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED:
$_______________
PARISH:
Mail to: Louisiana Association of Principals, 103 Crawford St., Winnfield, LA 71483
CHECKS MUST BE SENT WITH REGISTRATION
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There’s lots happening at LAP—it
always is this time of year:
membership renewals, new members,
annual conference, assistant
principals’ conference, principals of
the year, assistant principals of the
year, aspiring principal of the year, legal issues. .
.shall I go on!! And this year LAP is welcoming a
new executive director—Debra Schum! She “hit the
ground running” and hasn’t stopped!
The LAP office is in transition—with the main
office remaining in Winnfield and the new satellite
office in LaPlace. There have also been some
technology issues that have needed to be
addressed. But, we’ve resolved the biggest issues,
and will tackle the smaller ones as needed. All in all,
I think the transition has been relatively easy and
things are running smoothly, albeit busy!
Of course, you understand busy! With school
starting, you’ve been dealing with class schedules,
new students, new teachers, returning teachers,
discipline, district meetings, to name just a few. I
hope that the opening of school has been a smooth
one for you.
I hope to see everyone of you at one of our
conferences—either the Annual Conference,
September 15-16 or the Assistant Principals’
Conference, October 17-18. Jeanine
LAP’s new satellite office in LaPlace.
On the left: LAP officers,
Dedra Bailey, President
-Elect and principal of
Smith Elementary in St.
Bernard Parish, and
Jane Griffin, NASSP
State Coordinator and
principal of Winnfield
Sr. High in Winn Parish,
attended a meeting in
Washington, DC back in
June.
School’s
In
Session!
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Welcome New Members!
Iberia Parish
Steven Leroux, Magnolia Elementary
Alonzo Lewis, Westgate High School
Dwayne Romero, Westgate High School
Jamie Schexnayder, Delcambre Elementary
LAP/NAESP
Calcasieu Parish
Shauna Burkhead, Moss Bluff Elementary
Kim Dowers, E. K. Key Elementary
Meg Reed, W. T. Henning Elementary
Sharon Ruffin-Hardy, Barbe Elementary
Diocese of Lake Charles
Michael Miller, Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Jackson Parish
William Carter, Quitman High School
East Baton Rouge Parish
Joy Abernathy Dyer, Villa Del Rey Elementary
Jefferson Davis Parish
Donna C. Moore, Jennings High School
Brent Stantz, Jennings High School
Jefferson Davis Parish
Tanya Gaudet, James Ward Elementary
Lafayette Parish
Shannon Reese, Westside Elementary
Vermilion Parish
Angela Godwin, Herod Elementary
Lafourche Parish
Andre’ Adams, Bayou Blue Middle School
Winn Parish
Candy Polk, Winnfield Kindergarten
Lincoln Parish
Byron Miller, Ruston High School
LAP
Allen Parish
Kyle Jinks, Fairview High School
Rapides Parish
Clint Ladner, Poland Jr. High School
Wendi Waites, Ball Elementary
Assumption Parish
Sheryl Comeaux Dillon, Napoleonville Primary
Richland Parish
Martez Stevens, Delhi Elementary
Beauregard Parish
R. Scott Cornes, Merryville High School
Tammy Crain, South Beauregard High School
St. Charles Parish
Kelli Oertling, Norco Elementary
St. John the Baptist Parish
Tabari Simon, Fifth Ward Elementary
Bossier Parish
Jody Kaiser, W. T. Lewis Elementary
St Mary Parish
Carol St. Germain, Bayou Vista Elementary
Calcasieu Parish
Scott Eastman, Vinton Middle School
Julian M. Guillory, Moss Bluff Middle School
Aaron D. McDonald, Moss Bluff Middle School
Frank Wilson, Oak Park Middle School
St. Tammany Parish
Patrick Mallory, Sixth Ward Elementary
Vermilion Parish
Lysonia Robertson, J. H. Williams Middle
Concordia Parish
Elizabeth Walker, Monterey High School
Vernon Parish
Gertrud Blady Rosepine Elementary
Carolyn Bosley, Rosepine Elementary
Ulita Watson, Evans High School
East Baton Rouge Parish
Cara Coleman, Tara High School
Sharon Matthews, Tara High School
Glenda Smith, Delmont Dedicated Pre-K/K Center
Washington Parish
Jeffery Dewayne Thomas, Mt. Hermon School
East Feliciana Parish
Monique Montgomery, East Feliciana High School
Winn Parish
Beth Parker, Dodson High School
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Welcome New Members!
Mary Qualey, Carencro High School
Julia Williams, Northside High School
LAP/NASSP
Caddo Parish
Diocese of Shreveport
John H. LeBlanc, Loyola College Prep
Plaquemine Parish
John A. Barthelemy, South Plaquemines High
Calcasieu Parish
William Giardina, Sam Houston High School
Stephanie Rogers, Sam Houston High School
Bryan Trahan, Sulphur High School
St. Landry Parish
Donald J. Courville, Jr., Port Barre High School
Christine M. Darjean, Port Barre High School
Vermilion Parish
Gina Davidson, Rene Rost Middle School
Iberia Parish
Dina Bourque, Iberia Middle School
Bradley Judice, Delcambre High School
James Picheloup II, New Iberia Sr. High School
Webster Parish
Bridget Bridges, Doyline High School
Michelle Finley, Lakeside Jr./Sr. High School
Lafayette Parish
Johnoson Crutchfield, Carencro High School
Ebony Deshawn Moten, Carencro Middle School
Winn Parish
Paula Jones, Calvin High School
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