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Assistant Superintendent Shadow Reflection

1) The author shadowed Joan Haynie, the Assistant Superintendent of Clay County Schools, to learn about her role. 2) On the first day, Haynie gave the author a tour of the board office and introduced her to staff, explaining everyone's roles and responsibilities. They discussed ongoing projects like a school renovation. 3) On the second day, Haynie worked to balance virtual caseloads among elementary teachers and made changes in the system.

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Assistant Superintendent Shadow Reflection

1) The author shadowed Joan Haynie, the Assistant Superintendent of Clay County Schools, to learn about her role. 2) On the first day, Haynie gave the author a tour of the board office and introduced her to staff, explaining everyone's roles and responsibilities. They discussed ongoing projects like a school renovation. 3) On the second day, Haynie worked to balance virtual caseloads among elementary teachers and made changes in the system.

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Taylor Connard

Education 650

Assistant Superintendent Shadow Reflection

For my superintendent shadowing experience, I had the privilege of shadowing Assistant

Superintendent of Clay County Schools, Joan Haynie. Mrs. Haynie started her career at Clay

County Schools as the middle school gym teacher. She then advanced to vice principal at Clay

County Middle School and then principal at the same school. She is now assistant superintendent

and has been in that role for seven years. Shadowing Mrs. Haynie was an extremely valuable

experience.

The first day of observing with Mrs. Haynie consisted of an overwhelming amount of

information. She took me on a tour of the board office and introduced me to everyone there. We

discussed the different job titles, but her main point was that everyone does a little bit of

everything. Her roles as assistant superintendent range from budget to grants to teacher

certification. She also monitors teacher evaluations and is the main contact for WVEIS in the

county. There is not much that she does not do. We spent a lot of time going over the huge

renovation happening at the high school and how they got approval from the School Building

Authority for that project. She also broke down the school levy money and Titles I through V.

The second day of shadowing was also a busy day. On this day Mrs. Haynie was

struggling to balance the virtual case load of her elementary teachers. There are four elementary

schools in the county. The two bigger schools were having to take on virtual classes for the two

smaller elementary schools. The caseloads were very unbalanced and some teachers were not

able to handle the virtual load. She made a chart listing all of the teachers and their case load and

presented that to the superintendent to request changes be made. Once the superintendent saw the
changes on paper and agreed to them, she then had to go into WVEIS and make the changes. She

attempted to show me how to use the program, but it continued to crash. She explained that

WVEIS is supposedly upgrading, but it has not reached Clay County Schools yet.

The third day of observing consisted of the interview. We discussed this interview for

almost my entire day shadowing her. She had a lot to say, but it was okay because I learned so

much. Mrs. Haynie went into extreme detail about each question and even gave information

beyond what I was asking. I think she enjoyed getting to talk about her strengths and her role as

assistant superintendent.

Shadowing Joan Haynie was an amazing experience. Before shadowing her, I did not

fully understand what her role as assistant superintendent was. I also did not know Mrs. Haynie

very well and had only dealt with her on certification issues. This experience was eye opening

because of the way that Clay County runs its board of education. Mrs. Haynie does many jobs

and has to stay on top of minor details. She laughs about just how much there is to do, but I

know that it has to be a stressful job. During my time, I learned that you have to make smart

decisions and be meticulous about finances. Clay County is a small county and therefore

decisions have to be made according to what they can afford. Mrs. Haynie is incredibly

knowledgeable about her job and that made shadowing her a breeze. I will forever be thankful

for my time getting to observe her.

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