TregoED Blog — Building Leadership Capacity

Collaboration produces higher-quality solutions and greater commitment to the outcomes.   When people feel valued and are fully engaged, they have higher levels of job satisfaction and feelings of efficacy.  Yet not all leaders embrace collaboration or use it as fully as they might. In “Collaborative Leadership:  6 Influences that Matter Most”, author Peter DeWitt cites Read the full article…

In October, TregoeD was pleased to award three school districts with the inaugural Benjamin B. Tregoe Award for Strategic Leadership in Education.  The award recognizes districts, individuals or teams that have achieved significant and enduring results using TregoED tools. Winning entries demonstrated successful resolution of a critical issue or problem and operational or systemic changes Read the full article…

A Legacy of …. TregoED is dedicated to helping school leadership, staff and children solve problems and make and implement better decisions.  This, by itself, may not be all that unique….what sets TregoED apart, is the “Tregoe” in “TregoED.” Ben Tregoe was a man of thought. He spent years observing effective thinkers and problem-solvers, learning Read the full article…

I have “risen to the top” of many community organizations – Bowling League President, Church Elder, PTA President, President of the NJ Association for Middle Level Educators, many just a matter of default.  I am a certified “supervisor” in the state of NJ, but never became an administrator.  That does not mean that I was Read the full article…

Just recently, I read a comment made by a board member decrying teachers and school leaders taking time away from “their job” for professional development.  It is a sorry state of affairs when a voting member of the board does not understand the full positive impact that professional development can have on every operating aspect Read the full article…

“If the learner hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.” How many times as an administrator or as an educator have you heard that phrase?  I know I have heard it often.    At times I have agreed with the statement but just as many times I have not!  I think if all things were perfect – the environment was Read the full article…

Think about the best teachers, bosses or leaders you have known.  Are they memorable because they let you off easy or expected little of you?  Probably not.  How often have you mused, “I am grateful to Ms. ___ because she didn’t require too much of me”? Not expecting enough of ourselves – and of others Read the full article…

Tired of people taking initiative or developing creative solutions?  Feel like putting a stop to that? It isn’t hard to do.  Envision the crestfallen look on a young person’s face when we tell them that despite a well-intentioned effort to do something in a new or better way, they did it wrong – and they Read the full article…

A well-known quote from President Theodore Roosevelt exhorts: “It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the person who is in the arena.  Whose face is marred with dust and sweat Read the full article…

What characteristics make a great principal? The Wallace Foundation has published research that gives us a look at what school leaders can do to significantly improve the teaching and learning in their schools.  This brief synopsis barely does justice to the breadth and width of the research, but it can point “inquiring minds” to the Read the full article…