A week ago I wrote a post asking “How Do Principals Need To Change?” At the end of the post I promised to share the responses with my fellow administrators so that we could all have a priority to list to refer back to as we start our the new school year. Before sharing...
It is with great pride and excitement that I share this guest post by a New Milford High School student. I approached senior Filip Piasevoli last week and asked if he would consider taking the theme of my blog and writing his own thoughts on leadership, technology, and student-centered learning. Filip was recently featured...
As a Principal, I know I spend a lot of time thinking about how teachers, parents, and students need to change in order to move our school forward. I guess I am starting to wonder if I spend enough time thinking about ways I need to change my practice? Pernille Ripp’s great post “What...
I’m pleased and honored to be writing my first post as a contributor to Connected Principals. I’ve been blogging about educational issues at KARE Givers since last December, but as a new vice-principal, I thought this forum would be an excellent place to collaborate with fellow school administrators about education leadership issues specifically. I thought...
I learned very little or next to nothing about how to be a leader while in graduate school. What I have learned since is as a human being I have two parts. One part is the human animal and the other part is the human spirit. I use to just think I was losing...
As a teacher, I sat through endless staff meetings where information was relayed and the same teachers commented and gave their donated ‘air time’. As a principal, one of my main goals was to make staff meetings meaningful. Just like a teacher designs his/her lessons with the students in mind, staff meetings need to...
First posted by Janet Avery in March, 2010 Last week our edchat topic was concerning teacher morale. There was great discussion as to how it may or may not affect student achievement. One member of our PLN challenged everyone to raise someone’s morale the next day. I took this to heart and began to...
On July 20, 2010 I was granted an opportunity to deliver a keynote at the NYSCATE Leadership Summit in Troy, NY. The topic of my talk was, “Leadership in the Digital Age.” During my talk I spoke about two paths that a leader could take, telling people what they want to hear, or taking them...
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams As a classroom teacher I believed strongly in differentiated instruction due to the fact that my 25+ kids came in at all different levels. I always felt I was doing a disservice...
“Teacher need to be intimately involved in the conceptualization and direction of school reform…teacher knowledge needs to be an integral part of the process” — Carol Reed A few months ago, the staff at my school made a leadership decision that will change the way we view awards and honour rolls at our school. ...
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