Principal for a Day
Our annual Principal for a Day program is planned around the last week of March. This is also one of the COMPACT original programs. Initially introduced to allow influential business leaders and active COMPACT members to view the day-to-day operations of the schools, the Principal for a Day program has been extremely successful in the last several years. For many years, the COMPACT has been active as a day chair for the Leadership McLean County class. Each leadership member is matched with a school to become Principal for a Day, and has the opportunity to play a different role in the community than they usually would have on any other given day. This unique opportunity provides leaders with a deeper understanding of the complexities, challenges, and day-to-day activity of the principals in several local schools.
Each year, 40 Leadership McLean County class members are able to visit a school to observe the responsibilities that face the principal on a daily basis. Principals and their guests discuss personnel, disciplinary, demographic, technology, and budget issues together and many guests are able to visit classrooms or sit in on meetings between the principal and students.
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A program of the University of Illinois Extension.