Getting into Classrooms with a Coach Approach
This post first appeared in Education Week’s Finding Common Ground. Finding Common Ground, a blog run by Peter DeWitt for Education Week has been one of my favorites to read,…
Standard 3 for Administrators:
The school administrator provides effective leadership in the area of human resources through selecting, assigning, inducting, supporting, developing, evaluating, and retaining quality instructional and support personnel.
Tips for Formal Observations
This week's #educoach chat was on Effective Pre/Post Conferences with Teachers for Observation and was a great discussion that all principals could benefit from. If you would like to read…
Getting Started with Informal Classroom Walkthroughs
Of all the things I have to do each day as a principal, my favorite "task" is getting into classrooms each day to see what students are learning. I actually…
My "Coaching Hat"
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…
Reflecting on my classroom visits
Last week I tweeted that I had completed 126 classroom visits during the month of September and quickly had several replies from other administrators (in public mentions and direct messages):How…
Managing the Teacher Evaluation Process
Teacher evaluations are a necessary component of every administrators job. Managing the teacher evaluation process is quite time consuming for administrators. Recently I recorded a podcast at Eduleadership Radio with…
Documenting Walk-throughs
Blog 12 of Spilling Ink ChallengeMore on walk-throughs...I've explored various ways of keeping track of walk-throughs. This past year I used a spreadsheet for each quarter. On the left collumn…
Reflecting on my classroom walk-throughs
Blog 11 of Spilling InkI've previously talked about my professional development plan (for state licensure renewal) being focused on using walk-throughs to improve student learning. My goal this year was…
Hiring procedures/tips
I used our week long spring break to catch up and plan ahead for my maternity leave. What I couldn’t plan for at that time was the amount of time…