Standard 5 for Administrators:
The school administrator fosters the success of all students by effectively communicating, collaborating, and engaging stakeholders to promote understanding, support, and continuous improvement of the school’s programs and services that are aligned with the school’s vision.
As part of the School Admin Virtual Mentor Program (#SAVMP) I will have blog posts dedicated to the questions/topics posed. I always enjoy the networking connections I make each year through SAVMP, along with the reflective opportunities to blog (because I haven’t blogged in quite a while!) Know All of Your Students I believe the … [Read more…]
First of all, to those of you who have followed my blog and asked me where I’ve been…thank you! To those of you who thought I fell off the face off the planet, I promise that is not the case. I have been working at balancing my home and work life, along with extra time … [Read more…]
I’m excited to take part in this year’s digital School Admin Virtual Mentor Program (#SAVMP) and am hooked up with two mentees, Jennifer Kloczko and Brandon Pafk. Despite me being considered the “mentor” I am enjoying connecting with these two folks who already have administrative experience and have so much to offer me as well as … [Read more…]
A great new podcast that I love listening to is BrandEd hosted by Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis. Each episode shares ways that schools can communicate and share their positive news with parents/community. We all know that we can’t count on news reporters to share the positive things happening in our schools, because the negative … [Read more…]
Just sharing with you this week’s “Monday Musings” post to my staff from my memo blog: —————————————————————————————— Image from Venosdale I’ve always felt pretty tech savvy…I love learning about what new web 2.0 tools or iPad apps are out and I catch on pretty quickly. I feel like that all changed when I got … [Read more…]
I have been using Evernote for probably two years now and cannot survive without it. It has literally become my filing system and my brain…for almost everything. I often share ideas with interested teachers on how it could be used. Just today I was speaking with a colleague about how challenging it can be to … [Read more…]
Image from Ergatron.com Can you hear my excitement already? You read that right…we are going 1:1 with iPads in all of our preschool through 5th grade classrooms in our elementary school. Since I have learned from so many other blogs about integrating technology I plan to share our learning here, but also hope to get … [Read more…]
Here is cross-post of my final Monday Musings post from my staff blog for the school year…inspired by one of my favorite t.v. shows… This year was the final season for one of my favorite t.v. shows, The Office. I’m sure you can all relate to having one (or more) shows that you have come … [Read more…]
I recently read The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease after seeing Matt Renwick tweet about it several different times. I had it on my list of professional books to read, but he actually mentioned it again to me in a parent to parent conversation when I shared my concerns regarding my son’s animosity for reading. … [Read more…]
Over the past 6 months I have read numerous tweets and blog posts from other principals and teachers regarding doing away with Honor Roll and school assemblies recognizing students for Honor Roll. I appreciated how this discussion challenged my thinking, but I never joined in the discussion, because I am the one that started the … [Read more…]