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Best Practice / Leadership / First Year of Teaching
Best Practice / Leadership /First Year of Teaching  Student engagement vs. student avoidance Today’s article will begin to take a close look at student engagement and student avoidance. Past posts have spoken about how important and how difficult it is to engage our students. For me, it is and will always be the teacher’s responsibility
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Leadership
Leadership The process of winning. In past posts, I have written about how each challenge in our profession can be viewed as a single competition. Every day, we encounter many of these challenges. Successful principals and school leaders share many of the qualities and characteristics of highly successful coaches. Being successful in each encounter may
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Leadership
Leadership Playing hard for the coach. Being a former coach and an avid sports fan, I have always wondered why players at any level of competition will play hard for one specific coach and not for another. Why will some players run through the brick wall for one coach, and mental and physically quit on