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School Leader Case Study: Colin Hogan
Head of School @ Learning Community Charter School “Things are better today, because of you.” Tell us what you do and what your work typically entails I serve as the principal and chief school administrator of the most diverse school in New Jersey. I oversee...
Improve Feedback By Avoiding These 7 Traps
Joseph Jones and TJ Vari of The Schoolhouse 302 are experts when it comes to improving your feedback. In fact, they wrote the book on it! Fortunately for leaders looking to improve giving feedback, Joe and TJ are now offering a masterclass on this topic. The short...
Rick Kitagawa and Lisa Lambert: Creating trust in organizations
Would you start a business with someone you’ve only met in person once and talked to for about 5 minutes? Spotlight Trust co-founders Lisa Lambert of Rule Number Six and Rick Kitagawa of Kaiju Coaching did. That’s the power of trust. Lisa and Rick first met while...
What makes a good leader?
The other day I was surfing the internet and found myself on a page that sold very interesting (and tiny) human anatomical models. This idea inspired me to answer the question, “What makes a good leader?” by drawing a principal and identifying the characteristics that...
Five differences between managers and leaders
As a school leader how do you want to show up? There are major differences between being a manager vs a leader. This post will explore five of those differences. Differences in process Managers care about efficiency. If you manage a McDonalds you want the super-sized...
Exploring Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning from Different Stakeholder Perspectives
Many of the articles online discuss the pros and cons of asynchronous and synchronous learning from one perspective (e.g. the teacher’s perspective) or are designed to help educators prepare their lessons for each kind of learning. This blog post is different in two...
The Art of Advocacy
When it comes to equity in education, Dr. Sheldon Eakins is one of the best. January 11-13, 2021 he is putting on a virtual summit with 80 speakers and three days of antiracist education PD available for FREE. Register here. In the 5-minute video below, Dr. Eakins...
Maureen O’Shaughnessy: The Magic of Micro-schools
Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD, is a career educational activist with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students. She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State....
December 2020 Results & Q4 OKR Reflection
Each quarter I take a deeper dive into my goals. In this post, I will look briefly at my December 2020 results and extensively at my performance from October - December 2020. This post is long and worth the read. My hope is that you'll steal my process for goal...
