Expecting Excellence

  • 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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  • 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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