   Area 1 (stuff from your bosses you need to keep)
      Attendance (weekly data with follow up letters and plans for truancy)
      Beginning of the Year (everything you need to plan the beginning of the year)
      Budget (all things money related)
      Clubs and Tutoring (afterschool programs)
      CST (special education issues)
      Curriculum (scope and sequence and all materials related to instruction)
      Discipline (notes and forms on student discipline)
      Email (emails I wanted to save for specific reasons)
      End of Year Plans-Retention (all end of year plans and student retention stuff)
      Examples (great examples from teachers I want to share out with staff)
      Faculty, Parent and Student Handbook
      Faculty Memos (weekly memos or special memos I sent out)
      GATE (special advanced academic program I started)
      Leadership Team (agendas, and walkthrough notes and docs)
      Legal Issues (anything that might go to court stays here)
      Letters (letters to parents or outside organizations)
      MDK12 Toolkit (all state standards with assessment guides)
      PBES (teacher observations, official files including reprimands)
      Photos (pictures to use in newsletters)
      PD (power points and protocols used for professional development)
      PTO (parent agendas and notes)
      Assessment Data and Plans (DDI work)
      Scheduling (who goes where when and why)
      SIT (School Improvement Team Plan and follow up docs)
      Summer Scheduling (summer school and what needs to be done)
      Technology (special items or ideas I had to infuse technology in the school)
      Test Data (ALL test data and attendance data from years past)
      Tiger Times (Monthly community newsletter)
      Transportation (Buses)
      TVS Stuff (personal stuff that didn’t go anywhere else)

Also I kept sitting at the bottom, templates of things I used often, such as my Memo
template, my bosses fax cover sheet, the alpha list that contained all info on students, etc.

My folders when i was a principal

  • 1.
    Area 1 (stuff from your bosses you need to keep)  Attendance (weekly data with follow up letters and plans for truancy)  Beginning of the Year (everything you need to plan the beginning of the year)  Budget (all things money related)  Clubs and Tutoring (afterschool programs)  CST (special education issues)  Curriculum (scope and sequence and all materials related to instruction)  Discipline (notes and forms on student discipline)  Email (emails I wanted to save for specific reasons)  End of Year Plans-Retention (all end of year plans and student retention stuff)  Examples (great examples from teachers I want to share out with staff)  Faculty, Parent and Student Handbook  Faculty Memos (weekly memos or special memos I sent out)  GATE (special advanced academic program I started)  Leadership Team (agendas, and walkthrough notes and docs)  Legal Issues (anything that might go to court stays here)  Letters (letters to parents or outside organizations)  MDK12 Toolkit (all state standards with assessment guides)  PBES (teacher observations, official files including reprimands)  Photos (pictures to use in newsletters)  PD (power points and protocols used for professional development)  PTO (parent agendas and notes)  Assessment Data and Plans (DDI work)  Scheduling (who goes where when and why)  SIT (School Improvement Team Plan and follow up docs)  Summer Scheduling (summer school and what needs to be done)  Technology (special items or ideas I had to infuse technology in the school)  Test Data (ALL test data and attendance data from years past)  Tiger Times (Monthly community newsletter)  Transportation (Buses)  TVS Stuff (personal stuff that didn’t go anywhere else) Also I kept sitting at the bottom, templates of things I used often, such as my Memo template, my bosses fax cover sheet, the alpha list that contained all info on students, etc.