The Principal’s Principles

Hello and welcome to the Principal’s Principles.  I use that title because it creates an opportunity to teach anyone who interacts with this site a simple spelling fact.  And it is something that I experience frequently in the way of people not knowing the difference in the use of these two words, so again a teachable moment!  That is very important to me; that there exists in every human interaction and exchange the opportunity for learning to occur, so thus my choice of the simple play on words in titling my blog.

ANYWAY, again I welcome you to my blog.  One of my goals as Principal at BHS is to facilitate communication in every way possible.  I’ve never been a blogger to date, however the point here is that everyone can learn and I wish to model to staff, parents, and anyone who has an interest (especially adults because kids seem to have this down) that technology is our friend and that communication is a great thing in this environment.  So I will utilize this medium to send messages, to teach anyone who has an interest in a particular topic, to illustrate my philosophies, and whatever other relevant issues may arise that can be sent in this manner.  I thank Kim Estes, our Instructional Coach for Instructional Technology with BISD and a former BHS English teacher for her inspiring approach to getting me up and running on this and for keeping me steered in the right direction as I develop more skill in its use.  I assure you that she will most definitely hold me ACCOUNTABLE!!

So, look for more in the near future from the Principal’s chair and as I develop my principles for better communication and facilitate stronger trust among our professional learning community!

Teachers are my heroes, parents have the most difficult job to do when kids reach their teens, and kids just wanna have fun!

Kids, let’s try to make this a fun experience as well for teachers and parents because they love you more than you know and care deeply about your future, which usually is so far down the road for you that few teen minds have the capacity to project toward a realistic vision of what that entails.  So trust in the adults around you students because they really do have your best interest at heart.

in anticipation of a positive experience for all of us,

David Priddy, EdD

BHS Principal     10/8/08

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