Earlier this week, I ran to my local grocery store to pick up a couple quick items. Among them, I needed raw and unfrozen chicken…
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Earlier this week, I ran to my local grocery store to pick up a couple quick items. Among them, I needed raw and unfrozen chicken…
I read a post just this morning from a principal who spent only 10 minutes in their office on a given day. They didn’t answer…
Continue reading Out of Office: Five Reasons You Have to GET OUT
It is National Principals Month and I couldn’t be more excited for all my principal peers. Each of this month’s blogs will focus on the…
Continue reading Top 7 Reasons Why Being a Principal is Awesome
I am a long-standing fan of the show, “How I Met Your Mother” or HIMYM. The characters are just amazing, well-written, and so relatable. One…
Continue reading Three Awesome Leadership Moves to Break the Chain of Screaming
It snuck up on me pretty quickly. My first year as an assistant principal and within weeks I felt like I was really struggling. It…
Exhausted, overwhelmed, living life under water. That is probably a common theme when asking early career leaders how things are progressing in their job. You…
Continue reading 3 Time Management Hacks You Were Never Taught
I have had more than a handful of emails, zooms, and calls this week from school and district leaders talking about how they can begin…
The Walkthrough, the Informal Observation, whatever you might call it, is an essential element to growing and coaching classroom teachers. I find many of the…
Continue reading Four Quick Tips for Awesome Classroom Walkthroughs
I got a call earlier this week from a friend of mine. He recently retired from his assistant superintendent position and had begun his transition…
The start of the school year is here and among the things on leaders’ minds will be the new schedules, routines, and systems put in…