It’s that time of year where we ask our staff to place their orders for next year. We extended their deadline one extra day. The deadline day was here! Did I do my AP order for next year? No. Did I have time to sit with the KG AP and discuss what we need to order? No. Do I know how much I have as an AP to order? No. Did my excel/link work from office 365 NO. Yes, I made sure all my staff questions were all asked before I sat down to do my own order. The staff left for the weekend and I sat down for 3.5 hours straight and completed my order. The deadline was met!
As a K-12 school we don’t have a budget that we need to follow which I feel is so much harder. How much is too much? How much is too little? I was asked by many of my staff “ What is the budget for my team?” and I simply replied, “Order what you truly need and do not go crazy. Make sure staff whom are leaving restock their classrooms. Also make sure your class library is filled with books. Order what is a must.”
Did that help? I highly doubt it. But we truly do not have a number to give them. Now that everyone met the deadline, it’s our turn as admin to go through item by item to check their orders. For those teams who went overboard we will have to go back to them and say, “please reconsider some of the items that you’ve put on your list. If you can’t teach without them then leave them, if you can teach without them then please delete them.” Sunday we begin going through all the orders. Let’s see how that goes.
How do staff orders take care in your schools? What’s the procedure? Do you give them a budget or no budget? Do you have international orders and local orders?
Yes, not knowing what your budget is doesn’t really help, especially when you’re asked to go back and delete things. That is really hard to do in pre-K since they need lots of things..
Believe me we have tried and fought for a number but we got no where. 🙁 I’m sure it’s really hard. Been there done that last year, and it was frustrating not having a number to work around it.