• 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…

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  • Best Practice / First Year of Teaching

    Best Practice/ First Year of Teaching Listening to our students. Last week I shared with you some thoughts on best practice instruction.  I hope it sparked some personal reflection and perhaps caused you to change your strategy for an upcoming lesson. Perhaps, you thoughtfully scrapped an upcoming lecture and re-worked the lesson to make it…

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