Welcome to Season 4, episode 4 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you

energized for the week ahead. Today I'm going to share some thoughts on how to

deal with the principal who just doesn't get it and doesn't support you.

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co-so today's episode is inspired by a lot of different emails and messages that I've

gotten from teachers about a wide range of problems that they're having with

administrators.

Some of these teachers feel like their principals place too much emphasis on testing and

try to standardize teaching so that there's no freedom for the teachers to be creative or exercise the professional judgment and there's no freedom

for kids to be kids.

Other people who have written to me simply don't feel supported by their admins.

They feel like they're just workhorses who continually have more

and more demand stacked on their plates without any acknowledgement or appreciation of

what they do. One teacher put it this way, she wrote, I want to be part of helping admins see that they should treat their teachers as though they're valued.

How does a teacher do this?

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