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Continue reading →: About Student Voice: Lessons from Vacation
I’ve been away on vacation so my blogging muscle has atrophied. I’m going to try to get back in shape by publishing more frequent, shorter posts. I actually took two trips over the last two weeks. First, I travelled to Lake George with our four-year-old, Juliet and my sons…
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Continue reading →: School Leader Mentoring in the 21st Century
Originally posted on Let Learning Lead.: When we were brand new educators, working with students for the first time, we had established mentoring programs to give us the necessary structured support from colleagues because, let’s be honest, we likely wouldn’t have asked for help out of fear of looking like…
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Continue reading →: About a field tripThis entire week I have been away from school on the eighth grade trip to Québec and Montréal as part of our students experience studying French at the middle school. An administrator attends this trip along with the teachers every year. I rotate this responsibility along with the assistant principal…
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Continue reading →: About Booktalks – A “Sure-thing”
As a principal, I have coordinated a wide variety of events and activities at our school; some have been wildly successful, others have failed spectacularly. Our dunk tank festival to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project, was a huge hit, with teachers getting in the tank to get soaked…
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Continue reading →: About parent involvement: Not important? REALLY?It’s been two days since the New York Times published a piece entitled, “Parent Involvement is Overrated“. It was written by two researchers who are soon to publish a book based on their study with the intriguing title: The Broken Compass: Is Social Policy on Parental Involvement Misguided?” I smiled…
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Continue reading →: About failure
Sometimes publishing a blog is like interviewing for a job, you always put your best self out there. Think about when you’re asked on a job interview to discuss a personal shortcoming. Admit it, we all say, “I work too hard, really, I’m a workaholic, I never stop, I have…
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Continue reading →: Managing work and life: Technology
I just read a terrific piece in the Harvard Business review entitled: Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life: Zero in on What Really Matters by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams. The authors address a topic covered extensively in the literature… every literature: balancing work and home. One topic the authors…
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Continue reading →: About leadership – don’t be annoying…
When I first bought a house, I remember I was nervous because of all the paperwork and attorneys, it was intimidating. Somebody said to me, “Don’t worry about it, it’s always tough when you buy your first house, after that, it’s easy. Everything will be fine.” I thought two things…
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Continue reading →: PLN (Personal Learning Network) Blogging Challenge
I received this Challenge from Tony Sinanis on his blog: Leading Motivated Learners. I have seen it going around the blog world and have enjoyed reading other people’s responses. It is a distinct privilege for me to have been challenged by Tony. When I became interested through his inspiration to…
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Continue reading →: Orientation for Parents of Incoming 6th Graders
We have an exciting presentation coming up this Wednesday night. At 7 PM we are doing an orientation for parents of students who will be entering sixth grade next year. In past years, we have held incoming sixth-grade parents captives in the auditorium for almost 2 hours, cramming their heads…
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