These are not rhetorical questions, but questions to look each other in the eye and ask. And answer. And awkwardly stare and wait in silence as long as it takes for a response.
Category: Organization
My beast is going into Pre-AP biology next year and her future teacher gave her a summer “preparation” assignment to help get her biology mind right. One of the resources shared was a link to a short video on the interactive notebook that they be using in his class. It walked them through creating the […]
Read More Creating and using interactive notebooks…a video series!
This summer I find myself able to actually THINK ahead…something last summer didn’t allow, as I had NO idea what I was supposed to even be thinking about! I’m a planning nerd, which is surprising considering how much is always happening in this role. Someone shared via Twitter recently, ” The principal’s day is spent […]
A destructive hail storm pummeled North Texas this past Monday evening. The hail caused significant damage to homes and cars in our little ISD, even causing us to cancel school Tuesday,…
Read More Leadership during severe weather, lessons learned! #thefirstyear
I can’t believe my first semester as principal is over. This being the only post I’ve made in December shows just how fast it has flown by. I think I’ve…
Summer is a bonus for school administrators. We are given the gift of time to accomplish tasks that simply cannot be completed during the school year commotion. But with adrenaline…
How do you plan for your strategic use of time? In a culture that seems to take some kind of pride in talking about how busy we all are, it seems even…
This post was originally published on my blog, Learning in Technicolor. This topic requires consideration by all current building and district-level administrators and school leaders! I admit that at one point…
Are your meetings effective? Here are 6 types of meetings…
Kids? Politics? Both? The best part about our profession of education is…kids! Most–if not all–of us teach on the most dedicated staff, with the greatest kids, affectionately supported by a…
Many have leadership titles, but our true leaders exhibit leadership behaviors. Some are listed here. Certainly not an exhaustive list, nor set in stone; but led to some great candid discussion and…
I’m not much of a movie guy, but I did see The Lego Movie last weekend. My son left with a list of new toys he wants, and I left…
If you are passionate about what you do all day everyday with and for kids, it is easy to feel constant pressure and stress; however, now feels different. Today’s external…