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A Team Approach to Master Scheduling
Most of us are a couple of months away from the daunting task of master schedule construction. Although this task is highly time-consuming, it can set the following year up for success. With this in...
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Hindsight is 20/20: Using Personal Reflection to Shape Your Focus
Hindsight is 20/20, or so the saying goes. I’m not sure if it was a clever optometrist who originally coined the phrase, but I’m certain every school principal can relate. Personally, I’ve had many...
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Three Keys to Principals’ Changing Roles
When I first got into teaching, my principal’s role was very clearly to manage a building. Making sure staff showed up for work, the building was kept clean, and school rules were followed were the...
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Human Capital Management: Sowing the Seeds of Potential
While attending last summer’s National Principals Conference, rock star principal Jason Markey gently guided us through the dimensions of NASSP’s new Building Ranks framework. As the day unfolded, my...
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Using Google to Promote Teacher Collaboration
While various Google applications such as Google Drive and Google Docs are great tools to use with students, they also can dramatically increase teacher collaboration in schools. Administrators can...
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Five Reasons to Encourage Extracurricular Activities
Our world emphasizes teamwork, doing a job well, and being able to lead and follow—all skills students can learn and develop through extracurricular activities. Students who participate in...
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Building a Positive School Culture, The Sundevil Way
There are several components to building a positive school culture and multiple ways to go about it. Building culture never stops and is always in development—here’s how our school got started on our...
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Leading Through Crisis
This fall, the Science Leadership Academy faced its biggest challenge in the 13-year history of the school. After leasing our charming but limited space for many years, we were scheduled to move into a...
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Strategies to Curb Teacher Burnout
We have had a higher turnover rate of teachers the past few years, even as fewer individuals are entering the profession. It is no secret—we hire teachers, they become familiar with our staff,...
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Four Ways to Support Student Well-Being
We seem to be at a place in time where achievement and growth scores continue to dominate the educational landscape, even though these metrics run the risk of overshadowing the students. Fortunately,...
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Tell Your School’s Story Before Someone Else Does
I know just enough about social media to be dangerous. I grew up in a childhood without cell phones. Your story was told by how you carried yourself and what you accomplished at school, on the playing...
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Choose Your Three Words
Reflection is such an important part of the learning process. There was a time in my life when I was all about speed and moving forward—getting to the next thing, checking it off, completing the next...
View ArticleThe Census Is Coming—Are You Ready?
The U.S. Census Bureau will begin its count on April 1, 2020, and principals are vital to its success. Conducted every 10 years, the census seeks to accurately record the population throughout the...
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Student Voice in School Communication
In a world where young people are familiar with opportunities to express themselves online and in person, it is important that we present our students with excellent models of interpersonal...
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The Nonnegotiable Role of School Librarians
What principals know and think about school libraries we have learned largely from our own past experiences and school librarians. I have had the distinct honor and privilege to work with and learn...
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Visionary Leadership—Applied
State Summits offer National Honor Society (NHS) and National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) members hands-on experiential leadership development. They are designed to unlock the potential of...
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Cultivating a Culture of Risk-Takers Among Teachers
The focus of any school must be on the student, but emphasizing teacher success pays dividends throughout a school’s culture. Specifically, by encouraging teachers to take risks, we model this positive...
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State Summit Follow-Up
State Summits offer National Honor Society (NHS) and National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) members hands-on experiential leadership development. They are designed to unlock the potential of...
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Finding Unexpected Community Resources for Your Student Support Network
When a headline broke in USA Today several years back calling Farmington, NM, “the worst place to raise a child,” my school took it personally. Having raised two daughters in the town, my wife and I...
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Orange Barrels and Leadership
This summer, we took a family road trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls. During our 12-hour drive to and through Canada, we got stuck in a traffic jam just outside of Hamilton, Ontario, due to road...
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