Leadership
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Ownership and Squeaky Wheels
I listened to Tim Ferriss’ interview with Jocko Wilinck, author of Extreme Ownership – a book…
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A Modest Proposal
Because of the large number of schools and area in ADLA, we subdivided into geographic groups,…
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Renewing the Catholic School Experiment
Dr Timothy O’Malley has a fantastic piece on the horror of allowing a Catholic school to…
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Teaching Sacred Silence
I was reading Doug Lemov’s blogpost/review of Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf. This passage near…
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YouTube Communication
Over the past year, I have taken to filming myself reading my monthly principal letter and…
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Communicating Budget
Dr. Uhl’s podcast this week is a discussion with Tom Kiely of Marquette University on Financial…
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The Pros and Cons of Subbing
Over the last (almost) three years, I have subbed in many of our grades – for…
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Starting the Day
It might have been the time change, a head cold, the Nyquil in my system from…
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Systems for Principal
“Your mind is made for having ideas, not for holding ideas.” – Chase Jarvis (from the…
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Gossip vs Knowledge
At the end of the year staff meeting in May, I was presented with the “Therapist…