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Planning Your School District Admin Twitter 101 – Your PLN is Key!

April 16, 2012
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Planning Your School District Admin Twitter 101 – Your PLN is Key!

Cross-posted from eFACE Today Administrators listen as other superintendents and principals describe their Twitter experiences On Friday after-school, a colleague and I provided Twitter training to fellow principals and school district administrators. As a thank you to the tremendous PLN participation, below is the agenda, resources and Powerpoint we used during the two hour...

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Parents as Partners – Building Learning Networks

February 20, 2012
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Parents as Partners – Building Learning Networks

Many schools are beginning to use social media to send out information to parents. Examples include twitter feeds and facebook pages. These initial forays into social media are a first step. They provide parents and the community with greater access to information regarding the school and the learning happening within its walls. A key facet of school...

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2011 Lesson #7 – Educators can learn from entrepreneurs

January 5, 2012
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2011 Lesson #7 – Educators can learn from entrepreneurs

  A valuable part of our professional journeys as educators is to look beyond our own experience and learn from others. One strategy that has worked very well for our circumstance has been to bend budgets so that we can recurrently send teams of teachers to learn from others. This strategy commenced a decade...

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Challenge Me.

October 13, 2011
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In his book Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni tells us that if you have a team that sits around and always agrees, you are not a real team. Teams must challenge each other to be better. There is no innovation if everyone agrees; agreement equals status quo. I have recently read a...

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I wasn’t there, but I was CONNECTED

June 27, 2011
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I wasn’t there. In fact, I was almost literally half-way around the world. It happened at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia, and I’m in Dalian, China. The session was called: What Does it Mean to Be a Tech-Savvy Principal? I followed along on the #cpchat and on a tool called TodaysMeet, but I commented...

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Common Goals, Technology Advancement and Staff Development

August 12, 2010
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Common Goals, Technology Advancement and Staff Development

I have been deliberating many things as we prepare for the start of the school year.  One of these items has been advancing the technological literacy of my staff. With so much social media available, how does one prepare their staff to advance their technological skills commonly?  In many instances, teachers investigate technology on...

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This blog is the collected thoughts of school administrators that want to share best practices in education. All of the authors have different experiences in education but all have the same goal; ensuring we do what is best for students.