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 are [...]
This summer I’ll be attending principals’ training at the Principals’ Training Center session in Miami. According the the site, “The Principals’ Training Center for International School Leadership (PTC) was founded in 1989 to meet the professional development needs of leaders in international schools. Over 2500 international educators have participated in PTC training programs.” The director [...]
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 [...]
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