Eric Leroy Adams was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on September 1, 1960, the fourth of six children for his mother Dorothy, a house cleaner and cook, and his father Leroy, a butcher. Growing up in a working-class household in South Jamaica, Queens,...
Principal @ Ralph Downs Elementary “After joining the mastermind, I instantly possess an attainable network of global resources.” Tell us what you do and what your work typically entails. I’m an elementary principal in Oklahoma City that gets the opportunity to create...
If you’re an educational leader, you’re probably not using candid feedback as often or as well as you should be. That’s as candid as we can be about it. And, mostly, it’s not your fault. Candor is a skill. It takes practice. It requires training. And, it’s not...
Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. He is also the...
Every three months I take a deeper dive into my goals. In this post, I will look briefly at September 2020 and extensively at my performance from July – September 2020. This post is on the longer side, but if you stick with it you’ll learn a few things...