Category Archive: Leadership
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Friday Forum: What are the best ways to use videos in professional development work?
Friday Forum is a bi-weekly advice column for educators seeking guidance on educations issues. Please join the discussion – we want to hear your stories and suggestions, too!
Q: I wonder if anyone has fresh or creative ideas for me. I have been using the Success at the Core videos for …
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What School Leaders Can Learn from Business
In Good to Great, author Jim Collins introduces readers to the “Hedgehog Concept.” He tells business leaders to imagine three overlapping circles with the questions: What lights your fire (“passion”)? What could you be best at (“best at”)? What makes you money (“driving resource”)? Can this Hedgehog Concept around …
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Four Ways My School Tackled the Achievement Gap
Remember when we were kids, and we spent warm summer nights playing Red Rover with the other boys and girls in the neighborhood? Hands held tightly, all eyes focused on the target, our feet moved in sync, and our line was impenetrable!
As a principal of a middle school with high …
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The Common Core: A Lifeline for a Nation at Risk?
Will the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) move us beyond a nation at risk?
In 1983, when President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published a report entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, it launched a series of restructuring efforts that still reverberate through …
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Good Teaching is Good Teaching
Do you remember when teachers used chalkboards, when all students took PE wearing matching gym uniforms, and when boys and girls were divided into shop and home economics classes, respectively? I do. I was teaching back then. And with all of this teaching I have come to believe, deeply and …
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New Beginnings
Schooling systems move forward by building the capacity of the individuals within the system to do the work. – Michael Fullan, 2011
Like many of my colleagues across the educational spectrum, summer provides the time and opportunity to learn and to grow, reflecting on and re-imagining possibilities for ourselves, our …
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Strange New Worlds
What do you think it takes to be an instructional leader in the 21st century?
Recently, I participated in two professional development offerings to help equip me for this challenge. First, as a Success at the Core (SaC) Fellow, I had the opportunity to learn more about SaC with a small …
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When Leadership Sets off Fireworks in the Classroom
As the Fourth of July approached last week, I found myself humming along to “Firework,” the Katy Perry song blaring on my computer, while a recent camp class’s photo slideshow danced across the screen. At that moment, I couldn’t help but reflect on the cast of characters who passed …
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