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Rex Miller: Humanizing the Education Machine
Rex Miller is a futurist by training. He began his career as a project manager in the architecture and construction department for Southwestern Bell now AT&T, in 1978. He has spent decades helping organizations leverage their environments as a catalyst to healthy...
How (not) to create a school vision statement: 10 pitfalls to avoid
Creating a school vision that resonates with your community is difficult work. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it and helpful posts like this wouldn’t exist. The truth is most school vision statements are average at best. Below are 10 pitfalls you can avoid...
Jeremian Newell: Reimagining Schools to Serve Disconnected Students
Dr. Jeremiah Newell is the founder and CEO of MAEF Public Charter Schools, which has opened the first public charter school in the state of Alabama. He has previously taught middle and high school, led innovative secondary school models for disconnected youth,...
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...
