My Principal: Mrs. Gibson

Dear Blog,
      I interviewed my principal and asked her questions about being a principal and/or how she came to be a principal and this is what she told me.

       I asked her what she wanted to do when she was a kid and how she came to be a principal. She said that when she was a kid she really wanted to be a doctor, but that changed when she had to take her brother to the doctor. He broke his arm and when she looked at it she fainted. She then worked to teach parents and she liked that but she wanted to get better, so she worked at a preschool and she liked that. She wanted to get a step higher so she taught at an elementary school with first and second graders. There was an open job as a principal so she took it and now she is the principal at my school Irving B. Weber Elementary School in Iowa City, IA. She likes being a principal because she now gets to teach adults and kids.

        I asked her what she does on a daily basis and she told me this: At the beginning of the day she directs traffic in the parking lot. During the day she answers parents' questions and phone calls.She also has meetings and deals with paperwork. She walks around and makes sure the teachers are teaching and the children are learning. Most of all she just makes sure everyone is okay.
       She makes many contributions to the school. She sends out a group of teachers to help kids who need it. They also try out different ways of teaching kids and see if they are helpful. They also take data and they find places where the kids aren't doing well and they focus mostly on that area.
       Her school was different than our school because her school had two small sections of kids for each grade. She sat in her desk all day, and all they had to do was work sheets. They could not work in a group or with partners.They had a bag full of milk for snack and they put a straw in it and they drank it. She never saw her principal at her school. She told me that if she could go back in time and be the principal of that school she would make it like Weber.

       This was the interview with my principal, Chris Gibson. If you want to learn more about principals and how they get where they are then interview yours today.

                                                                                 Sincerely,

                                                                                                Jake Parsons