By Greg Schmill

While this may sound like the plea of a frustrated American tax preparer and payer on April 15, I regularly hear of another group seeking more time. They are our WELS teaching principals —principals who also carry out significant teaching roles. These educators face the daily challenges of a myriad of urgent and important tasks, of role ambiguity and role conflict and its accompanying stress, and of trying to lead the school from the classroom. It is imperative in this time of great challenge and change for our schools that our congregations provide the time for administrators to administrate, for supervisors to supervise, for leaders to lead, and for the visionaries to cast a vision. Continue reading →