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August 2020 Results
Yikes! With my international move from Scotland to the USA, I am way behind on updating this dashboard. That's okay, I shared this post about self-grace recently. I just didn't know I was talking to myself! https://vimeo.com/459168950/6b4a48614f Past dashboard...
Tracey Runeare: Equity in school: The moral imperative to provide for your students
My experience in education includes 16 years teaching high school social studies, 6 years as a high school Assistant Principal, and I am now in my 5th year as Principal at Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California. I have always been drawn to public education and...
Manuel Colon: Crushing low expectations and Helping others do the same
Manuel Colon is the Chief Academic Officer in the Anaheim Union HIgh School District. He has been instrumental in the implementation of the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which has been highlighted as a model in California. In addition, his work with...
10 Unique Leadership Styles in Education
At Better Leaders Better Schools, we like to be creative and think out-of-the-box. That said, we’re not going to talk about ideas you most likely have already found -- Leadership styles like constructivist, transformational, servant, instructional, etc. We want...
Jaime Casap: Your Past Is Your Competitive Advantage
Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the potential of digitalization as an enabling capability in pursuit of promoting inquiry-based learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders...
10 Ways to Build Better Schools
Better Schools TIP 1: Remember to smile, breathe, and have fun The work is serious, but you don’t have to take yourself so seriously. That is the idea behind Rule #6. What kind of energy do you want to bring to your school whether it is virtual, hybrid, or...
Nancy Frey: The Distance Learning Playbook
Nancy Frey is a professor at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership where she focuses on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership. Nancy is also a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, an award-winning...
Lori McEwen: Deep and Joyful Learning
Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning. Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor. Some of...
What is the role of a school principal?
This post is designed to take a fresh and innovative look at the role of a school principal. You might even say it’s an uncommon approach to the role, but that’s what we do at Better Leaders Better Schools. A traditional approach to the principalship will get you the...
