Expecting Excellence

  • First Year of Teaching / Leadership/ Mentoring

    First Year of Teaching / Leadership / Best Practice Are you “that” teacher?  This past weekend I had the wonderful experience of going to see a group of mostly middle school aged children perform instrumental musical selections at a local mall.  As they were setting up, I focused my attention on the instructor, his activities,

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  • Leadership

    Leadership Isolation—A lonely place.  I currently work with a cadre of new principals through a state approved mentoring program.  In New Jersey, a new principal must participate successfully in a two-year mentorship program when they get hired into their first job requiring a principal certification.  Most states across the nation have some sort of entry

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching/ Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year Teaching /Best Practice Leadership lessons learned from the movie “Moneyball” for the classroom and school. The 2011 movie Moneyball provides an engaging look behind the scenes of running a major-league baseball franchise with significant fiscal limitations.  Some have argued that the philosophy illustrated in the movie and actually employed by the

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