My next several Monday Musings posts for staff will be sharing my learning as I read Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild. Here’s this week’s post for our staff: I’m continuing to share what I learn as I read Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller. (Previous posts are here and here.) Habit 2 of Wild Readers … [Read more…]
My next several Monday Musings posts for staff will be sharing my learning as I read Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild. Here’s this week’s post for our staff: As I shared in last week’s Monday Musings, Habit 1 of “Wild Readers” is that they dedicate time to read. I am still devouring chapter one on … [Read more…]
My next several Monday Musings posts for staff will be sharing my learning as I read Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild. Here’s this week’s post for our staff: Read Across America week is probably my favorite week of the year, because I love reading and love any opportunity to promote it. We celebrate reading … [Read more…]
Here’s another cross-post of my Friday Focus post for staff, in which I openly reflect for them on how my practice impacts their reflection. I’d love to hear feedback from other administrators trying to balance between the coaching and evaluating hats.—————————————————————————————— In a previous Friday Focus posts I have shared with you my goal to … [Read more…]
Here is another cross-post of my “Friday Focus” from my Staff Memo Blog this week: ————————————————————————————– Previously, I shared with you that I planned to read the book Mindset by Carol Dweck over break, because I had heard about it on Twitter and read another educator’s blog post about it. The premise of the book … [Read more…]
If I were to go back to being a classroom teacher, I think I would be one of the best teachers ever…not because I think so highly of myself, but because as a principal, I get to see the best practices in classrooms every day. I could take the best from each teacher I’ve seen … [Read more…]
This is another cross-post from my staff memo blog to share this week’s Friday Focus with you…——————————————————————————————–This week one of the blog posts in my google reader was on mediocrity in teaching (you can read it here). When I read this I thought of how this may be the case in some schools, but certainly … [Read more…]
Just sharing the Friday Focus post from my Staff Memo blog this week: ——————————————————————————————– At our Professional Learning Meeting this week I asked you to open up to the front of your Reflection Journals and take 5 minutes to reflect on the goals (2 professional and 1 personal) that you wrote at the beginning … [Read more…]
Just over a year ago I heard Todd Whitaker speak to many principals at the annual AWSA (Association of Wisconsin School Administrators) convention. As always, I left with many great tips to continue leading my school, but the biggest tool I learned about was providing my staff with a weekly memo. Whitaker called it a … [Read more…]
Each week I post a “Friday Focus” for staff on my staff memo blog as a way to model professional reflection and hopefully inspire them each week. This week I attempted to summarize what I learned from Scott McLeod at SLATE. This is a cross-post from my staff blog. ——————————————————————————————- This week I attended the … [Read more…]