Category: change
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Middle School Schedule [1]: A New Opportunity
This is an exciting time! When I first joined Spring Lake Middle last summer, I had a series of meeting with different groups and our School Improvement Team. Our talks covered getting to know the new principal to strategic planning. The SIT and I had several meeting over the summer to review our […]
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Integrating Google into Our Admin Function
One of the major shifts we’re making this year is our use of Google. Cumberland County Schools is a Google district was already a Google district before I joined July 2012. We have most of our functions tied into the Google Cloud or at least available in the cloud. I’ve only been with Cumberland, […]
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The Grey Area [Creating Options]
Several years ago, an assistant superintendent used this graphic in a talk with a room full of assistant principals to help explain some possible motivations and actions in stakeholder decision making: Her talk and this image made such an impression on me, I remember it vividly 10 years later. The focus here is the grey […]
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The Balance
‘Do we focus on fine tuning past traditions or work implementing new innovations/processes?’ This was the sum up of a conversation I was part of with my assistant principals. As a fairly new administrative team we have pretty frequent conversations covering a variety of topics. My two APs are both in their second year and […]
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Edmodo for our Faculty Meeting
This week a last minute inspiration led to a unique learning and sharing opportunity. One of the topics I was finalizing for our Tuesday meeting was our discussion on Edmodo. Our district is an Edmodo district, we utilize it completely, from teacher-student instructional purposes, to communication efforts to curriculum planning and development. My plan was to go over […]