Spiderweb Discussions
Recently I had the opportunity to hear Alexis Wiggins talk about Spider Web Discussions, a topic I had never even heard of before. I was immediately hooked on this mindset…
Standard 1 for Administrators:
The school administrator drives the success of each learner through collaborative implementation of a shared vision of teaching and learning that leads to student academic progress and school improvement.
Recently I had the opportunity to hear Alexis Wiggins talk about Spider Web Discussions, a topic I had never even heard of before. I was immediately hooked on this mindset…
This summer, I've joined other educators in reading the book Becoming a Literacy Leader by Jennifer Allen and have been learning from the others reading this book in their blog post contributions…
One of my good principal friends, Amber Teamann, started a blog series this July called #askanadmin. In this series of posts this summer, you'll find answers from oustanding practicing school…
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,…
Each year in our school we use a week of NCAA March Madness to promote colleges. For several years now, during this week, teachers are allowed to wear jeans (always…
Never in my life did I ever aspire to be a principal...until I became one! My first year out of the classroom was to serve as an Instructional Coach. I…
This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. I have never heard…
This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. One of the sessions…
This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. I am a huge…
This year I had the experience of starting a robotics team for our students in grades 5-7. I have absolutely NO experience with robotics, engineering, programming or anything of the…