Did You Know?

Did you know that Southland Elementary School is a Brigham Young University Partnership School?
What this means is:
• You will see new faces at our school on a regular basis. We help to train new teachers coming into the profession. Southland Elementary has some of the best teachers in the profession. We have been chosen to help train teachers:
- who are just deciding to go into the field of education.
- who are learning to teach and will teach selected lessons in selected subject areas to students under the direction of the classroom teacher.
- who are doing their student teaching.
- who are first year teachers and will do an internship under the direction and tutelage of a full time BYU Facilitator assigned to the school. These first year teachers are observed and given help on a regular basis by the Facilitator as well as their instructors from BYU (CFA, Liaison, professors).

Have you ever wondered WHY there are so many “assistant principals” at Southland the past four years and why they only stay for a short time?
• Since becoming a principal Mrs. Summers has been asked to train/mentor new and upcoming principals. In the past four years she has had the opportunity to work with and train twelve principals who are completing their graduate programs to become administrators. Every intern principal she has worked with in prior years has obtained an administrative position.
• Southland Elementary does not qualify for an Assistant Principal (enrollment must be over 1,000 students for a half time assistant principal and over 1,200 student for a full time assistant principal) so these “assistant principals” aren’t really assistants but are educators who are in training to become administrators. They are interns. Part of their training includes shadowing, which means that the intern principal will shadow the principal. They will attend meetings and have as many experiences as they can to prepare them to become administrators. Sometimes they will direct or lead activities. The intern principal shares the office with Mrs. Summers, so often when you come by there will be someone in the office with her. If you wish to talk to Mrs. Summers alone, just let her know. If you don’t mind the intern being there, he/she will stay to learn about different interactions.
• Intern principals come from various colleges and programs. They are assigned to Mrs. Summers by the university and district human resources department. This year we will have four intern principals at the school:
- Mark Burge was here from August – November
- Mckay Robinson was here from November – March
- Patty Bowen was here in March (she got a job at Union Middle School with an April 2nd start date so she will finish out here internship there but she should have been at Southland from March – June)
- Scott Roskelly will be coming to Southland June, July, and August 2009.