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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 …

What I’m Reading: #ShowYourWork! by Austin Kleon

20 August 2019 | Filed under: What I'm Reading

I first heard Austin Kleon speak on the Stacking Benjamins podcast. I was drawn to his comments in the 04/10/2019 show that the gig economy can be stifling to a person’s creativity, and artistic people shouldn’t feel pressured to sell everything we make. Cynically, I thought to myself how the …

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 …

Hiring the Best Educator

31 March 2014 | Filed under: Leadership, Teaching

I like reading about innovative hiring & recruitment tactics because I see hiring as one of the greatest responsibilities of a manager and one of the most terrifying. We don’t hire so often in schools that it can ever become a routine, yet there’s an enormous amount riding on every …

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 …

“Zero tolerance” models intolerance

28 March 2014 | Filed under: Discipline, Teaching

Recently, there have been reports about another grade-schooler suspended for pointing his fingers like a gun (see the Ohio Dispatch story). I often dismiss these stories because (as anyone in education knows, with horror) the media “coverage” is usually one side of the story, or less.  Schools often won’t comment due …

This is your intervention…

23 March 2014 | Filed under: Bullying, Teaching, Whole Child

Even before there was a state law, my school took on bullying. We treated it as harassment, holding out the spectre of serious legal consequences if cruelty continued or for any retaliation. I argued, then as now, that school is a civil right, and anyone interfering with that is stealing …

Public service

19 March 2014 | Filed under: Teaching

In my lifespan, there has been a clear wall dividing the business world from the public sector. These parameters are usually fenced off by the rewards attributed for work in each context. Business work is often painted as more driven: the effort input corresponds directly with the reward outcome. Government work, frankly, …

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