Working+With+Mentors,+Principals

Working With Principals, Mentors - Beth

Discuss ways PDS can begin – Olathe was public school driven, not faculty driven – must involve public school on ground level, current procedures came from teachers at original PDS schools, first mentors were training us in procedures that were then passed on, started as a voluntary program, two kinds of knowledge related to the success of this program and one can’t exist without the other – university people tend to think that they have the most knowledge – must be able to feel empowerment on both sides – shared decision making, let them do the parts that they are experts in, think about what a person would need to know in order to form this partnership, problem solving, involvement of principal is key to success of the PDS