There are a lot of people out their suffering, because they are not sharing. If we are not creating, we are consuming. We need to be creating more stuff. ~ Peter Reynolds I blog as a reflective practice. I blog to dialogue with colleagues. I blog to share ideas and I blog because I...
“This world is too big for me to be trapped here” was one of the lines in the Circle Game, a student written play based upon the Joni Mitchell song of the same name. Students at the Performing and Fine Arts High School (PFA), one of six high schools on our campus were the...
I am not a music guy. I appreciate one’s ability to create music, but I can’t read music at all. However, I absolutely love attending quality high school music performances and observing sight-reading events. Have you ever experienced a sight reading at an adjudicated music competition? If you haven’t then you are missing out...
A friend of mine wrote to me last night. He asked, I am teaching a program called COAST – an outdoor education program for grade 10′s. One of the courses that I will be teaching in second semester, is Leadership and I immediately thought of you. I am wondering how you would structure a...
Imagine walking into a shoe store where all shoes were the same. Size, shape, color, and function were the same for all choices. Every customer walks out with the exact same shoe as the customers yesterday as well as shoes that will leave the store again tomorrow. Of course shoe stores do not work...
I had to move to China to see the ‘ladder walk’. A man, standing on an ‘A’ frame ladder, painting a ceiling of an outdoor entrance cover had finished the section he was working on. Instead of stepping down to move the ladder, he stepped up and put one foot over to the other...
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...
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...
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