Building a positive classroom environment before class starts?
Greeting your students a the door is a highly effective method of building school culture and supporting positive behavior management.
The Importance of Our Work – Building Relationships
I just read one of more disturbing things I have read in a long while. I first heard it on the radio yesterday but had to verify it first. In an opinion poll completed by YouGov, 20% of millennials say that they have no friends in real life, 27% say that they have no …
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Breaking Down Your Approach: Become More Approachable
Shelly shared a wonderful blog post on the importance of how you come across as a leader in meetings. Your approach with the group is critical for your group’s development, and for how the team perceives you. You must understand how you appear before the group as an approachable leader, but also a credible …
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Summer Rest & Relaxation: School Leadership
School Leaders work extremely hard during the school year to help keep so many systems running smoothly, often doing many tasks that go unnoticed after hours. It is important for leaders to take some time to relax over the summer in order to recharge their batteries for a new school year in order to be …
Approach
“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.” ― Thomas Edison We often find ourselves in a position where we would like to share a new idea or concept with a team of educators and we are hoping it will be well received. Or maybe we feel it is time …
Classroom Management: How Do I Manage Technology Use?
I have a love and hate relationship with technology. Hate is probably too strong a word, but there are days that technology does not make my job easier. I am not talking about the multiple uses for it in the classroom, I am talking about managing technology in general. Everyone of our students …
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Building Trust: Working with Local Staff
“I want to help you, but I can’t” was what I was told. I am not big on being told no, especially by someone I had a working relationship with. I was the Head of Department, and what I was asking was both reasonable and something that I had asked before. I was frustrated …
Volunteer teacher training in Honduras : From Data/Research to Practice.
Someone might ask you one day, how have you used data to make a difference in an educational setting? I would like to share with you a recent example of an answer to this question from my practice. I am currently 18.75% finished with my doctorate in education via University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana. My research …
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Collective Teacher Efficacy : Top effect size
According to John Hattie’s research in a 2017/2018 ranking, collective teacher efficacy (CTE) has the biggest positive impact on student learning. And the difference is quite large. CTE scored 1.57, with second place (self-reported grades) scoring 1.33, which represents an 18% increase in effect size. Why is this data important? Because this can shape where …
The Job Search
It’s amazing how stressful it is to search for a leadership position. Many of us have the same story where we start by searching for an admin position and we are open to searching for a position that we are currently in (ie. homeroom teacher, middle school math, counselor). Having two options is comforting and …