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I interviewed my boss Ann Lounsbury, who is a Title Reading and Math Team leader. She currently works at Kennedy Elementary school, located on the East side of Lawrence, Kansas. Currently there are about four hundred students at the school, it is preschool through fifth grade. Ann has been in the field of education for twenty eight years. During her time in education she was an elementary teacher, elementary school councilor, and currently a Title I Team Leader. She has been at Kennedy for the last seven years in her position. Ann’s responsibilities are being the team leader of the ten title staff, building assessment coordinator, building SIT team facilitator, and instruction coach. Ann is always busy at work, but seems to always find time to sit down with anyone if you need something. Though Ann’s title does not seem like it is in administration, she is the untitled vice principle at our school. Our school that we work in a Title I school. Seventy-eight perc ent of the students are on free and reduced lunch, though it is a low income school. During the interview Ann spoke a lot about how lucky she is to not be included in any legal issues while at Kennedy. During her time as a councilor she was not so lucky, during her time with a student years ago the student confide in her that she was being sexually abused. Because of mandatory reporting of abuse and neglect she had to call it in. She said that it was the hardest thing she has ever had to do. MostlyShow MoreRelatedEssay On School-Wide Data Analysis1068 Words   |  5 PagesMAP results for students who took Math, Reading, Science tests in grades k-9 in order to identify percentage of Students who met or exceeded their projected RIT (Rasch Unit) in 2016-2017 school year. I also analyzed the results by classroom, subject, and teacher. 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