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3 Actions for School Leaders to Ensure High Levels of Student Learning are Occurring
School leaders have full plates organizing, managing, and leading schools. One of the primary responsibilities on their plates is to ensure that students are learning at high levels. To know that, school leaders must use formative measures to assess student learning...
3 Strategies to Manage Your Day When Your Day Tries to Manage You
As school leaders, we all have days when, from the moment we wake up, our day tries to manage us instead of us managing our day. Emergencies and bad weather have specific protocols ensuring we jump to the more pressing priorities on our calendars. So, how does a...
20 Ways for a Principal to Make Mondays a Tool for Achievement
My love affair with Mondays started almost ten years ago. It’s my favorite day of the week. While many people dread Mondays because they see them as a signal that the weekend is coming to a close, I choose to view Mondays as opportunities to begin something new, to...
I Dare You To Make Your Schools G.R.E.A.T.!
The three words I Dare You are familiar vocabulary to most. For kids of all ages, the phrase either elicits a sense of apprehension or even dread if the phrase is being spoken to them or a sense of power if they are the one issuing the challenge. When I was a high...
5 G.R.E.A.T.! Gratitude Strategies for Principals That Will Transform Your Schools!
What is Gratitude? Gratitude - the act of feeling appreciation, showing thanks, or returning kindness. Gratitude is a powerful tool that is often ignored or left to chance in schools. One of the world’s most leading experts in the field of gratitude research is Robert...