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2. How does your school integrate parent and community involvement? 3. How do you plan your professional development activities? Generally, I would be interested in learning about their own backgrounds--i.e. What was their path to being a middle school principal? || 2. How is realistic is it to give students some say in what they're learning? 3. What is the biggest challenge that comes from teaching middle school? || 2. Is there anything you regret, or looking back on, feel that you could have changed? 3. What do you feel like middle school students benefit from the most? (What really helps them learn?) || 2. As a principal, how do you create and lead change at the school level? 3. As a teacher, how do you create and lead change from the classroom up? In short, how do you change the culture of a school that needs to be changed? || 2. How do you encourage professional development at your school? Does your school district provide any type of incentive (help with payment, travel, etc.)? 3. What are your responsibilities in the summer? Is school administration a year round job? || 2.) What do you think is the best way to handle students who repeatedly have discipline issues? 3.) In the time that you have been in the school system, what is the biggest change you have seen? || 2. What kind of advisory program do you have, and how could it be approved if possible? 3. How do you handle the grade level gap of students that have been passed through the system? || 2. What influences determined the school schedule chosen for the academic year and does it change at any point in the school year? 3. What do you look for in your teachers for the middle level? (More elementary based or secondary based?) || 2. What does your school do to promote your mission statement? 3. Do you prefer hire outside adults for extra curricular activities, or do you find that most after school activities are coordinated by those who are already teachers in your school/district? || 2. What is the class schedule like (i.e. block scheduling)? 3. As a teacher, how is your classroom set up so that your students feel comfortable? || 2. What is your favorite aspect of teaching Middle School grade levels over, say, High School or Elementary? 3. What has been your most difficult aspect of your job as a middle school teacher? || 2. How do you promote teamwork and togetherness within your school? 3. Is it hard for you to get teachers to try new things in their classrooms? For example, team teaching, and integrated units, and things of that nature. || 2. Is your board of directors for education supportive of your ideas that you have for your school district? 3. What are the biggest challenges that you face as a principal/superintendent? || 2. How important are exploratory programs at you school? What kinds of exploratiories are offered? 3. What would be the best advice to give another teacher? || 2. Would you promote teachers bringing students outside to interact with the material in their environment? 3. As a beginning teacher, what would you do to develop my skills and learn new teaching methods? ||
 * **Names** || **List your three Questions** ||
 * Brooks, Eric || 1. What is your BEST advice for a new teacher?
 * Cook, Shila || 1. How to extracurricular activities play a role in the classroom?
 * Cooper, Susanna || 1. Do you feel like tracking, or Standaraized tests, play a big role in your school? If so, do you feel that they are effective?
 * Cyr, Geoffrey || 1. As a superintendent, how do you create and lead change at the highest levels of the school district?
 * Daigle, Joshua || 1. In what ways does your school incorporate technology? Are there any aspects of technology implementation you are working towards?
 * Fitzpatrick, Amanda || 1.) What is your least favorite thing about teaching middle schoolers?
 * Lambert, Joshua || 1. What impact does special education have on the general education students? (Positive or negative)
 * McGinley, Sarah || 1. What kind of student related problems do you see? (Perhaps on a daily basis)
 * McKeown, Sarah || 1. What gives a newly graduated Education major an edge when applying for a job?
 * O'Halloran, Erin || 1. Did you always want to be a principal/superintendent/teacher?
 * Rines, Kyle || 1. What do you enjoy the most about your job? What do you dislike the most?
 * Scheffler, Erich || 1. What's the most one most important thing you look for when hiring a new teacher?
 * Simmons, Darcie || 1. Do you do team teaching/ integrated units at your middle school? If so, do they seem to be working to the students advantage?
 * Stevenson, Elizabeth || 1. What are some of the best/favorite ways to develop strong teacher-student relationships?
 * Stewart, Justin || 1. What do you do to promote and back teachers who try new methods and explore different ways of teaching?