Battle-tested principal drafted for struggling Boucher
Sources inside the Lafayette Parish School System tell the INDsider that Keith Bartlett, currently the principal of John Dibert School in New Orleans’ Recovery School District, will be recommended by a central office committee to become principal of Alice Boucher Elementary School, the parish’s poorest performing school.
Bartlett is among six candidates interviewed by the committee for the Boucher job. Four of the other candidates are either principals or assistant principals in Lafayette public schools; the fifth is an LPSS central office employee. The recommendation will be made to school board members this afternoon.
The hiring of a new principal at Boucher comes as a result of a school board plan to reconstitute the administration and faculty at the struggling school. All educators at the school were informed recently that every position at Boucher, save for cafeteria and janitorial staff, was up for grabs. The plan also includes bonus/merit pay for teachers and administrators selected to work at Boucher. Several current teachers at the school reapplied for positions, but neither the principal nor the assistant principal re-upped.
The timing for the Boucher plan — so near the end of the school year but before performance scores were released — seems, in retrospect, a bit odd. In fact, students at the school showed improvement, in some cases double-digit improvement, in standardized test scores over last year. The performance at Boucher falls within a pattern for the LPSS as a whole; performance scores throughout Lafayette Parish public schools generally improved over last year, and Lafayette students scored above the state average in every subject area in the third, sixth, seventh and eighth grades; in fourth- and fifth-grade math and science; and in the high school exit exam.
... written by mike mitchell , May 20, 2009 - 08:34 pm
Isn't this the same Keith Bartlett that was at fatima a few years ago?
... written by DannyGlover , May 20, 2009 - 08:39 pm
Keith Bartlett did a really good job at Fatima years ago.
... written by kla , May 21, 2009 - 02:32 am
he left fatima in 1989...give or take a year. phenomenal person.
... written by NoWhining , May 21, 2009 - 12:26 pm
They are giving teachers a choice instead of making them stay. They are giving them more money to stay, smaller class sizes, more professional development, all things they asked for. Why is anyone complaining? The kids get teachers who want to be there, teachers that can't handle it don't have to stay, teachers that love a challenge are going to hang in there with better conditions. It's like giving someone a box of chocolates and having them complain...Is it against the law for news to be happy? Can't the teachers who are overjoyed that they'll be getting more help and less kids be happy and in the paper too? Can't parents and kids be grateful they're going to get more personalized attention next year? The scores still have a lot of room for improvement.
... written by I is educated , May 21, 2009 - 01:59 pm
Yes, a phenom, and a lot of other things too.
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