• Leadership / First Year of Teaching

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching Understanding your “shelf life” ( although all of my articles are written with an educational slant, I think this one is especially appropriate for all businesses) We turn another page of the calendar.  March 1st always sends to me a signal that many people are thinking about retirement.   As

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Receiving feedback Please do not ask, “how am I doing?”, if you do not want to know the truth!  I know this question has been posed to me many times, and the wait time before I answered seemed like an eternity.  I wasn’t prepared to tell

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice

    Leadership /First year of Teaching / Best Practice Giving Feedback Grant Wiggins describes feedback as more than just hearing comments made after the fact, namely: advice, praise, and evaluation.  He asserts that feedback is the information we receive about how we are doing to reach a goal. (Wiggins, 2012 )  Usable feedback followed by advice

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