Polly Smith – My goals as director

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The first year I had to spend a lot of time on organizational issues, and putting the school in a place where it operates in a very sound particular way, fiscally, organizationally, personal policies, there were many things which over the course of the last twenty years seemed to have just been on a wing and a prayer. It seemed very important to me and to the entire university to have those things in order. So I have had to spend more time than I wanted to on that. I also have begun supporting and motivating change in the environments. The green group classroom is a good example of that. That classroom looks nothing like it did before. It's beautiful, the spaces are very well articulated; adults and children can go into the classroom and know where they are, and how to make their way, and keep connections with the adults. I believe the class it's very important that classrooms are supportive of building relationships: child to child, child to teacher, child to parent, teacher to parent, parent to teacher, etc. I believe that they have very good bones, now for continuing to do that kind of work, and I would like to see those influences continue throughout the school. I also would like the teacher to be well-versed and articulate about some areas of curriculum, and some areas of the pedagogy that has not been their focus, and I think this is important, to be well-rounded. Our teachers are very well educated, but there are important areas that they can become much more educated about, and have the opportunity to then decide if these are thinking that they would like to incorporate into their practice.

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