Line in the Sand: An Essay on Principal-Teacher Relationships

In: Academic leadership

Abstract

was a fall Saturday morning, and I was in my Auburn doctoral program monthly seminar where wetalked of various topics of interest to our group of 15. Somehow the topic came around to therelationships between teachers and principals. Consensus of the group was that the proverbial line inthe sand was an inevitable and unchangeable part of being a school principal. I, to the surprise of noone then or now, disagreed. This time I was not playing my well-honed role of Devil's Advocate, I reallybelieved that there was no good or logical reason that there should exist, a barrier between teachersand principals.