This is another snippet from an assignment in my master’s class on supervision and professional development, this time on my view of the purpose of supervision: The purpose of supervision (as it applies to the relationship between a school leader and school teachers) is: To assist in creating a tone A tone of respect A [...]
Principals and other leaders of various stripes discover early on that everyone in their school or organization (or family) is not always going to agree with them. Within any group of humans presumably moving toward a common goal, there will be Resisters. As with leaders, Resisters can come in many flavors. In my experience, there [...]
Richard St. John’s TED talk below really resonated with me. I don’t know about you, but there have been many times in my life when I have achieved a modicum of success only to lose focus and have to begin climbing the ladder again. At times I have let things slip to such a degree [...]
An appropriate, sincere compliment at the right time can make someone’s day and, perhaps just as importantly, serve as motivation for continued top performance. The Daily Biz Solutions blog advises that it must be the right type of recognition coming from the right person for the praise to become effective motivation. Christopher Farmer, who is [...]
As you may know, I am a faithful fan of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Franklin-Covey discusses the importance of personal, family, and team mission statements and links to its Mission Statement Builder. An excerpt: According to Dr. Stephen R. Covey a mission statement is like a constitution by which you make all decisions for your life. Highly effective [...]
Whom do you trust in your leadership roles? More importantly, who trusts you? The Franklin Covey blog poses these queries, which prompted me to ponder: What are the qualities of the people I trust or have trusted throughout my life? Why do I trust them? Here is the short list of some of the qualities I’ve observed [...]
One of the hard lessons I had to learn as an inexperienced administrator was that I could not be paralyzed by fear in hearing bad news, nor should I avoid bearers of it. Some of us have the tendency to put our heads in the sand or work behind the scenes to correct bad news [...]
“OK, today I’m going to get out into classrooms, and nothing’s gonna get in my way!” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve uttered those words, but no matter how good my intentions are, the “office” part of the job seems to always call for immediate attention. In this article from Principal magazine, former [...]
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