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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...
Clayton Reedie: A Heart Shift Regarding Family Engagement
Clayton Reedie is the current Director for the Campbelltown Principal’s Network in Sydney, the equivalent of a District Superintendent in the United States. He began as a teacher in 1991 and from there earned early promotion to Executive Teacher, Assistant Principal...
How to be a great school principal: 4 experts share their ideas
Today’s post is curated by a number of school leaders in North America (New York, Massachusetts, Utah, and British Columbia). There are obvious permission to play skills that principals need in order to be effective -- consistency, hard-work, determination,...
Success is like a mountain
Novice and veteran school leaders alike wonder, “How to be a successful school principal.” Being proactive certainly helps as well as these 10 skills that the best school leaders have. Successful school leaders also read … a lot.But I worry that wondering how to be a...
Erika Bare: A First Year Principal Takes on Sexual Harassment
Erika began her career as a special education teacher in the West-Linn Wilsonville School district. When her family relocated to Southern Oregon, she was fortunate to work in Medford as a special education TOSA, supporting the work of the Special Education Department...
July 2020 Results
Each month I update my dashboard and post the results in public. I do this to make sure I follow through and I hope to inspire some other leaders to start setting, tracking, and most importantly ... be accountable to themselves for the results. Note: I track my...
Effective School Communication with Staff and Parents
If you have ever said, “It’s in the newsletter they should know,” or “Why are people asking questions on something I’ve already shared?” then this post is for you. Former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner has said, “Just when you are getting tired of sharing a message, that is...
