Category: change

• 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 […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/13/2013

  change, collaborate, commit, plc, school administration, school leadership, student centered, teachers

  Change, Collaborate, communication, curriculum, decision making, education, leadership, schedule, School administration, School Leadership

• iPads and Google Forms for Classroom Observations – Team Solution

  

   The Spring Lake Middle Instructional Leadership Team had a great collaborative growth experience with the Cumberland County Schools Curriculum and Instruction Team.     The CCS C&I Teams makes regular visits to schools to observe classrooms and give feedback to the principal and/or other personnel. For our visit today, our Executive Director of Secondary Curriculum, […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/08/2013

  change, collaborate, data, pln, school administration, school leadership, student centered, teachers

  2.0 Tools, Collaborate, data, decision making, digital learning, education, Google, GoogleDrive, leadership, Observation, professional development, School administration, School Leadership, Social media

• 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, […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  01/30/2013

  change, collaborate, plc, pln, school administration, school leadership, teachers

  Change, climate, Collaborate, communication, community, School administration, School Leadership

• 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 […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  12/01/2012

  change, collaborate, commit, community, resolution, school administration, school leadership

  buy-in, Change, conflict, resolution, School administration, School Leadership, vision

• 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 […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  11/25/2012

  change, collaborate, community, school administration, school leadership, teachers

  Change, community, decision making, Jim Collins, School administration, School Leadership, stakeholders

• 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 […]

  Derek L. McCoy

  10/25/2012

  change, collaborate, Edmodo, school administration, school leadership

  Change, Collaborate, digital learning, School administration, School Leadership