This year an AP moved up to our P role. I am a teacher with my admin license who had some instructional coaching duties this year. I’ve been at my school for close to 2 decades.
From the first week of school my P had been telling me his plan to move me up to admin next year in the coaching role. We met weekly and this was a topic of conversation each week that he initiated.
A few months into the year, he announced that a colleague was becoming AP. This was truly a shock to me-the position was never posted, no one was interviewed, I had no idea this was happening despite meeting weekly and talking about future plans. The new AP and P have a social relationship outside of school. I have almost double the amount of years as she does in our school, and more experience in leadership roles and curriculum across multiple grades.
When I asked him why I wasn’t considered, he said he wasn’t confident I could do it at the time but now he was. This was baffling to me-I had held leadership roles in the past and had an extensive list of initiatives and programs that I started or helped get off the ground, in addition to tons of typical admin duties that I volunteered for or was asked to do.
Since the announcement of AP, I have barely seen him. He has pushed my weekly meetings onto the AP, and has gotten pretty cold/rude when he sees me. In meetings I am practically ignored whereas before he was singing my praises for the work I was doing.
Our position sheet recently came out and the role intended for me is listed as a teacher position, not an admin. At one point earlier in the year he mentioned moving me to admin over the summer or at the start of the year so he wouldn’t have to post it and have other people apply, but has since posted an admin position for a different area, so that posting positions doesn’t seem to be a concern.
I am unsure how to ask him for clarity on the position, but feel like I need to know what my role will be next year. It feels as if he was stringing me along thinking I would have an admin position next year so I wouldn’t ask questions about how he got the new AP into her position. It’s a truly shitty feeling and my confidence has taken a huge hit.