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,…
Promoting College Awareness in the Elementary with March Madness
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…
Introducing “The Coach Approach”
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…
Hang In With Challenging Students
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…
Disrupting Poverty in School
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…
Visible Learning for Literacy #empower17
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…
Learning Empowered at ASCD
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know from my tweets that I just attended the ASCD Empower 17 conference in Anaheim, California. The last (and first) time I…
Innovation, Problem-Solving and Learning from Failure: Is it really in your school?
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…
Connecting With my School Community
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…
Leveling Up My School Facebook Page
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…