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Wielding Peer Pressure to Build a More Wholesome Community

18 May 2023 | Filed under: Teaching

Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …

#Girlboss and Systemic Change: What I’m Listening To

24 July 2020 | Filed under: Leadership, What I'm Reading

Listening today to an episode of The Takeaway from a few weeks ago (7/6/2020), and I was struck by the final segment, in which Tanzina Vega interviews Amanda Mull about her research into the #GirlBoss moment in American culture. Mull states as clearly—and frankly sympathetically—as I’ve ever heard it, why …

Positivity in Leadership

22 June 2020 | Filed under: Leadership, What I'm Reading

Reading “What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like” in Harvard Business Review, written by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan, and thinking about how to keep staff morale up during this time of isolation and challenge. The coronavirus shutdown of schools presents a crisis for educational leaders. Teachers have to move …

Marathons

4 April 2014 | Filed under: Leadership, Teaching

The story goes that the Athenians had defeated a larger Persian army in battle at a place called Marathon. A runner was sent back to announce the victory and he ran the whole way, about 25 miles, collapsing in death the moment after he triumphantly shouted “Nike!” the Greek word …

The Datum’s the Thing

2 April 2014 | Filed under: Leadership, Teaching

In his recent blog post, Thomas Martellone takes a methodical walk through the debate around data in education, and provides an excellent primer along with a rational argument. Basically, the concept is that data are useful, but get a bad rap because they are touted as the end all and …

The problem with passion

30 March 2014 | Filed under: Leadership

I just read Justin Tarte’s post “Your passion can be your worst enemy…” and I couldn’t agree more! I know the feeling so well of being in a faculty meeting, presenting an idea, and wondering why it’s not taking off; I’ve been in that position plenty of times before. He …

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