You are a CTE Director and it's your job to submit 180-Day follow-up data to the state for your district. Your district is used to having high placement data for last year's senior class and this year your numbers are lower. You inform your assistant superintendent that the numbers will be lower and you quickly understand that this option is unacceptable. Although it is never said, you get the feeling that you need to make the numbers work. The data that you submit directly helps your district achieve or maintain accreditation and your district desperately needs to gain accreditation. Do you change the numbers so that you help your district with accreditation?

A student brings a knife into school and is caught by security when going through the metal detector. The student insisted that she didn't mean to bring the knife to school, she simply forgot that it was in her book bag. She explains that she has the knife because she has to walk to and from school and comments are made to her about her body by men on the street. She stated that she gets scared about what might happen to her and that protection is necessary. You are torn. According to the Safe Schools Act and district policy , the weapon should be turned over to security and the student should be suspended for a minimum of 10 days pending a hearing. You believe her explanation and remember that she is a senior that really improved academically from the beginning of the year until now. You don't want her to be in danger of not graduating but you also don't want to violate policy. Do you suspend her?

Your secretary tragically lost her son right before Winter Break. She is having a hard time coping with the loss and isn't sure when she will be able to return to work. You want to support her but she is almost out of leave time. She only has 24 hours of leave remaining (3 days) and she needs to take 32 hours (an extra day more than she has). You know that she isn't doing well at all and that every day helps. Before the loss, she stayed late often to complete work and also helped with extended day events like Parent-Teacher Conferences, Open Houses, etc. She has "banked" some time with you because of her continuous dedication to the school. When it's time to sign her timesheet, do you sign off on 32 hours (giving her one free day)?

Grandma just called and needs her grandson, Braedyn, to come home immediately due to a family emergency. Grandma can't drive and her grandson is 17 years, 11 months. She is sending her son, Devin, to come retrieve Braedyn, but Devin is not on the approved list to check Braedyn out of school. Braedyn is also not old enough to sign himself out of the building. Grandma is on the approved list and gives her verbal approval for Braedyn to be released to Devin. Do you release Braedyn?

You are offering a new program at your school that students across the districts will be excited about. You send out open house invitations to all high school students that meet the criteria, regardless of their school of record, to come learn more about the new program. On the night of the event 30 students attend, and of those 30, 25 of them are from your district's college prep school. You know that it's going to be difficult for those students from the college prep school to attend based on the view of CTE by the college prep school administrator. The students and parents that attend the open house are upset that the counselors at their school don't tell them about the CTE programs that are offered. They want their kids to have the same opportunities as the other students in the district. From personal experience as the building administrator of CTE, you know that historically, the district and college prep school doesn't support the CTE program. They think that CTE is for the "non-college" kids. You know though that the college-prep kids would really excel in all the programs and could earn college credit in the Engineering, Computer Science, and Educator Prep programs. As the administrator, should you be transparent with the parent (even though it won't be favorable for the college-prep school or the district) about how the district views CTE so that she can start the ball rolling on changing the rules for college-prep kids?