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A typical day is teaching four 96 minute classes in a row with a 25 minute lunch. With no time to use the restroom or reset before the next class.  No prep time unless you are a favored teacher and have a prep time everyday. I learned some good strategies on how to teach and I learned how to be respectful towards students.  I also learned new strategies to try with they students.  Some are good and some are just a total waste of time.  The worst part is having to deal with the overbearing, narcistic administration and curriculum coaches.  They observe you sometimes two-three times in one week. This creates a very stressful work environment.   The teachers have no protections from the students or administration. Since there is no Union the Administration can get away with treating teachers however they want.   I have since then left to public school and am greatly enjoying the massive difference in respect towards teachers.   I have a planning period everyday and am left in peace to do my job and teach and grow my students.   This company tries to do good, but the people they have in charge of curriculum coaching are extremely ingenuine and narcistic.  The Principal leaves all the evaluations and observations to the Curriculum coaches and lets them essentially run the School. The Principal is instead more preoccupied in recruiting new students by making Tic-Tok videos with teenage girls everyday.     In my public school the Principal themselves are the only ones responsible for observing you only 1 maybe 2 times per year.  Also when you teach Public schools, you are paying into the State pension and putting in 12.5% matched by the school  for another 12.5%  towards my Pension.  Its a much better experience teaching in Public school. I am treated with SO MUCH MORE RESPECT.    Charter schools have no protections for their teachers and leads to massive issues. Best advice I could give to someone, is do not teach for Leona Schools and go to Public Schools instead. 

These schools are not for first year teachers. I was The P.E. teacher at the Academy of Warren and it was the worse experience I ever had. I had no gym but an empty classroom and no resources to do my job and when I asked for them, the administration did not come through. Student behaviors is a big issue. The students disrespect the teaching staff and it has gotten so bad that even the administration has no clue what to do. They will not back you up and are only out for themselves. They claim they will support the teachers but they don't.

The administration does not come through on anything they say. They have told the students that they will take away privliages and possibly exspell them, but they don't. The School leader is only out for herself and is trying to make a name for herself.

The school does not have any grading program up and running so teachers have to find there own. They do not provide any student information for you. In order to get it you have to ask the student or there Homeroom teacher. It makes it hard to know if the student has any kind of medical issues.

The Teaching staff is awesome and I loved them very much and the curriculum coach was awesome too. That is the only positive thing I can say. If you are a P.E. teacher do not apply because the school has no gym or outside areas to play games. They have no equipment and the students abuse everything. Do not believe what the School Leaders says because it isn't true.

They can not keep staff because teachers are not respected by the administration or students! I had students told by other staff that they did not need to do my assignments if they didn't feel like they should and the school leader AND an unqualified person come in my classroom and take over my lesson because they didn't like what I was doing!
The school is run by the students and teachers are criticized by administration when students do not like them!   
I have an issue with being told how to run my classroom by someone that does not have an education degree and went from being a classroom aide to being in charge of the students and teachers in the upper grade level! 
The upper grade levels do not have a PE class and have to sit the whole lunch period. These kids are expected to sit and be quite from 7:50 a.m. until 4:00 everyday! They have no outlet at all and become crazy as the day goes on! 
Student discipline..... no such thing!

Coordinated recruiting efforts with academic and administrative personnel at various universities, junior colleges and other post secondary schools. I learned how to counsel college bound students with school selection, financial aid, scholarship, and enrollment and career guidance.

Management was really good but was constantly changing. My co-workers were all real hardworking people. We all went above and beyond what their jobs titles were to help assist our students. The hardest part of our job was the growing attachments to our students who became family and when they graduated seeing them leave.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the feeling that I helped educate a young minds for the future.

TLG schools vary in how they are run and ,even within how they are run, vary from day to day. Admin does a nice job trying to be competitive with salaries and actually pays better than other charters, as well as giving bonuses. Unfortunately, they give bonuses to keep base salaries low. Admin can also be very clique in who they favor. This impacts both the morale of schools as well as promotion possibilities. Corporate doesn't seem to care a lot about most of the schools, they want to take credit for the good but ignore the bad. 

There’s a lot left to be desired from Leona and their schools. Not a lot of oversight for the special education departments at some school districts and the blame is shifted to the teachers instead of management properly addressing the issues that occur and preventing future issues. How do you just throw a new substitute teacher into writing IEPs without proper training and then jump down their backs when something doesn’t look right, although you encouraged them to look at previous IEPs that were approved following the same format etc? Not enough support for severely impaired students, pay structure is weak, 

The Leona Company makes millions of dollars by exploiting teachers and its economically challenged student body. School Directors are given incentives for cutting costs at the expense of staff and students (seems like a conflict of interest). High turnover due to slave wages; many wonderful people have worked in Leona schools, but left because of below industry standard wages.

Most school facilities are old and in need of refurbishing, many are over-crowded and lack outdoor space for recess or PE; and few opportunities for enrichment education are offered to students. It is scary to think America's school system is heading in this direction,

Why do I begin? 

A school leader change is needed. The school leader leads by intimidation, manipulation, and micromanagement. The school leader makes six figures yet the immediate subordinates do all the work. Former assistant school leaders from there know how the school leader operates, yet the school leader seems to have done a snow job on the board and corporate. Staff have complained, yet nothing seems to change. It is a shame. More staff are being pushed away leaving students and a community without caring teachers. 

I was fortunate to work with some amazing people, who inspired me to do my best every day. Rebounding from Covid has been challenging; and unfortunately, many staff and students use it as an excuse to avoid improving or doing their best. As The Leona Group is a for profit organization, they focus on making money rather than building and sustaining great schools with great staff. Leona has the lowest pay scale in the city, most schools offer 10 PTO days to teachers, Leona offers 5 - and they add an extra week to the school year. Morale is low because there is very little incentive or reward for doing a good job. 

It's as job that provides me opportunity to learn, progress and contribute to the organization. We were teamwork-oriented environment in a company that empowers employees to create and take initiatives. my skills are utilized to the maximum and allows me to grow within the organization. the company culture is very team oriented and focused on delivering real measurable results while still maintaining a friendly and respectful work environment.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Teacher 1 salary reported	$42,000 per year
High school teacher 2 salaries reported	$52,000 per year
General maintenance 8 salaries reported	$16.50 per hour
Instructional coach 3 salaries reported	$55,000 per year
Elementary school teacher 1 salary reported	$32,000 per year

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