Posts Tagged ‘instructional leaders’
ERG Event: Building Vision for a Positive School Culture
Are you ready to rebuild your school culture? Spend a day with Sean Gaillard and ERG digging into leadership and vision: Building Vision for a Positive School CultureFebruary 12, 20198:30 – 3:30 This workshop is open to K-12 school leaders who want to learn how to positively impact their school through collaboration, innovation, and culture.…
Read MoreThe Joy of the Positive Word
The days of summer are filled with joy, but joy can be short-lived when something as simple as a negative word comes your way. Everything immediately changes because a bomb was dropped on your psyche. It rolls around in your mind like a cyclone destroying the positive thoughts that had once taken center stage.…
Read MoreStay Organized, My Friend
I had a great To Do list to help me get organized. I just don’t know what I To Did with it. or-gan-ized – adjective – having one’s affairs and items in order so as to deal with them efficiently. Does the word organized make you heave a sigh and yearn for the time when that adjective might be used…
Read MoreSharing Ideas
Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes. (Peter Senge) This is what we do as teachers…help one another, be it our students or our peers, grow as individuals and as professionals. We do this by sharing what we know…
Read MoreFeedback – The Language of Growth
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” – Ken Blanchard Years of research show that feedback is one of the most powerful influences on achievement. Daily we strive to provide quality feedback to our students, but we also must take the time to provide quality feedback to our colleagues. Feedback is the language of growth. It is…
Read MoreTeachers Observing Teachers
“The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives.” – Robert John Meehan More and more teachers and administrators are finding that peer observations are a form of collaborative professional development that truly delivers. A school culture that encourages and promotes this sharing of…
Read MoreDifference Makers
From the desk of Leigh Ann . . . “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi I had dinner with four amazing women last evening, and as you can probably guess, the conversation revolved around teaching. We were dissecting the characteristics exemplary educators possess. What is it that gives them…
Read MorePrincipal's Hot Picks
From the desk of Alice…. In every school I have ever gone in, there are students who can read but choose not to. These students know how to call words, they understand what they read and they even think critically–when they decide they want to. They can be a challenge because the barrier to reading…
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