Tag: teacher collaboration
To Explo and Elective Teachers, I’ve Failed You
I’ll just come right out and say it–to all of the elective and exploratory subject teachers with whom I’ve worked over the years, as a school administrator I’ve failed you. And miserably too. Trying to answer to all the legislative mandates, rules, and regulations that have placed such heavy emphasis on core subjects; professional learning [...]
Principals Need to Make the Uncomfortable, Comfortable
Yesterday, our district dedicated the day to school-based staff development, with an emphasis on curricular issues. But, during the second-half of the day, I dedicated my high school grade-level team attention toward our ongoing planning/implementation of a school-wide positive behavior supports (PBS) program. I would be flat-out lying if I said this planning process went [...]
Too Many Meetings? Too Much Planning and Brainstorming?
Early this morning, I had an interesting, and somewhat surprising, conversation with a fellow staff member about the excessive meetings to plan and brainstorm our school’s PBS program. From our conversation, it was very obvious that this staff member was prepared to get the PBS program rolling and felt as though we’ve been “spinning our [...]
Why Can’t I Maximize the Precious Collaboration Moments?
One of the most cliche statements you’ll hear from many educators–”we just don’t have enough time.” Seems like so much resistance to ideas, activities, and extra duty opportunities are stonewalled because of the apparent lack of time given to educators. But in reality, there is enough time…however, educators have to know how to maximize the [...]
