-: My name is Mark Shanoff, I'm the principal
of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida.
So my role is is the overall operations of this school.
So that's academic as well as all the other operations
including finance, bookkeeping, custodial,
food service, and then of course
everything that happens instructionally in our classrooms.
So number one, really comes down to providing
meaningful timely feedback to teachers and students.
And modeling relationship building with our students
for our teachers is of primary importance to me.
Also ensuring that parents feel like they're getting
the best customer service that they can possibly receive
from their local school and that our students feel proud
and prideful to be in Edgewater Eagle.
It really does start at five o'clock in the morning
when we start looking at who's going to be on campus
for supervision, who is going to be off campus
at meetings, so ensuring that the school
is properly supervised is always the first thing
that we look at every morning.
Once the school day begins, it's important
for our students to get off on the right foot.
We want our buses to come in on time,
we wanna make sure that all of our students are greeted.
They're greeted warmly and that our students
make their way to their first period class.
Once the students are safely in first period,
we'll then start going around to the various classrooms
and checking in on what's going on in our classes.
We will also engage in various meetings
throughout the day, some of these meetings involve parents,
some of these meeting involve just us staff members.
Some of these meetings involve local government entities
who may be looking to either have an event on campus,
or they may need some feedback from the school.
Once the school day dismisses, once our students then
are gone, either they go home or they move on
to their after school activities
I will try to engage one way or another
in their after school activities
whether it's a game or a performance
such as the play that just took place, Hairspray
where I played the gym teacher.
That is something that I enjoy doing
because at that point we are engaging our students
in the environment in which is
kind of the hook for them in school.
We recognize that it isn't always going to be
what they learn in chemistry that's going
to get them to come every day,
so I try to engage in as many of those activities
as possible, and then when the clock strikes seven or eight
I find my way home, only to open up more email
and ensure I get caught up from what I missed
on email from the entire day.