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As educators, we understand well the value of resilience for learners. Resilience is the capacity to persist even when faced with overwhelming obstacles – the kinds that might fell an average person. Resilience ensures growth and progress despite significant challenges or circumstances. But what about resilience as leaders? How are we demonstrating resilience on the Read the full article…

By now you are back from summer road trips, travels or staycations.  Memories of flight delays, flat tires, whining young ones and unimpressed adolescents are rapidly fading.   These travel hassles can be all-consuming.  But once handled, they are soon forgotten.  We are left with the good memories,  breathtaking scenery, crackling campfires, and shared experience.   The Read the full article…

Simple Steps provide Decision Protection Insurance

  I saw a tweet the other day, a photo of a new administrative dream team out celebrating their first round of administrative decisions (with the best hot dogs they could find).  I wondered whether they had taken out any Decision Protection Insurance, so that their first set of decisions would not be met with Read the full article…

Don’t you love the pharmaceutical commercials these days, the drug relieves pain, but there is a long, long list of dreadful side effects that goes by in a flash.  Not all side effects, however, are bad.  I cannot imagine that the side effects of sharing leadership skills with anyone can be anything but positive.  The Read the full article…

Chances are that you, like me, have spent countless hours playing and/or observing youth sports.  Undoubtedly you have seen a wide range of coaching styles – and noticed their effect on outcomes on and off the field.  A lot of what is true for coaching pint-sized players can be applied not only to older players, Read the full article…

We talk a lot about collaboration these days… it is even identified as one of the 5 C’s required for all kids to succeed.  We know it is important, we’ve been saying “two heads are better than one” for decades, but are we practicing what we preach?  I bet that there are some fine examples Read the full article…

Soft Skills: Evidence shows: Spend a Little, Gain a Lot!

There’s something about the term “soft” skills that sounds “less than” – something less important or real than that which is “hard” – think evidence, news, work, etc. But this is a misconception -it’s often the “soft skills” (e.g. teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, self-awareness) that differentiate leaders and allow them to excel. When a leader Read the full article…

The Every Child Succeeds act is shifting control of funding for professional development from the Federal government to the state and district level. Typical PD is about to change… In many districts, typical teacher and educational leader professional development (PD) has been short term, “sit and get” workshops or conference sessions.   With the March 2017 Read the full article…

I was recently talking to a principal from a school that was considered a “Focus” school.   They were not on the list because the overall school was performing badly.  They were on the list because they were a Title I school that has a large within-school gap between the highest achieving subgroup or subgroups and Read the full article…

Is faster always better?   Clearly not when it comes to making tough decisions. Certainly there are times, (e.g. emergency situations) when there is a need for speed. But too often people assume a quick decision is always desirable.   In fact, a growing body of research tends to show that the opposite is true. In Great Read the full article…