MiddleView

As I sit down to write this entry, words of a song I heard on the radio are playing through my head – “Does anybody hear her? Does anybody see?”  Writing for this blog for nearly six months now has been an interesting experience – and as I said in my first entry, it’s a bit ironic for me to write for a blog because I’ve never been able to maintain a diary or journal in my life – but so far so good!

One of the basic tenets of good writing is to know your audience – and that’s where the difficulty lies – we need more information on who our readers are, what their response is, and if they are finding the commentary worthwhile.  The data show that the site is visited an average of 650 times a month but we'd like to know who you are – principals, assistant principals, aspiring leaders, teachers, district office personnel, higher ed, consultants, friends, relatives, or ?? 

Most disconcerting is during the time we’ve been on-line, we’ve only had a few dozen comments posted in reply.  The ultimate purpose of a blog is to develop a community – people with a common interest sharing their thoughts and observations – but that hasn’t happened.  So what does this mean?  Who knows?  Maybe you are just too busy to comment, you haven’t found anything worth commenting on, the process to comment is too confusing, you prefer to remain anonymous and not have your name posted on the site, or you are a “lurker” – someone who enjoys reading and thinking about the entries, but just doesn’t want to write back.

So, we need your help to determining the future direction of this endeavor.  The main purpose of this blog has been to help middle level leaders reflect on their practices – Are we accomplishing that?  Have the entries in the blog made you think about what you’re doing?  Has something you read made you rethink how you’re doing something?  As to the future – is it something we need to keep going with, would an e-mail list serve of middle level leaders be a more effective format, are there other topics that we should be commenting on?

Please click here to take a short survey that will give us some information about the value of this project.  And we promise - it’s completely anonymous and will only take a few minutes of your time to give us some important data.  Thanks in advance for helping out!