Category: commit

• Middle School Schedule [6]: Book Review ‘Making Teamwork Meaningful’

  ‘If teams of teachers are going to accomplish anything of substance, they need regularly scheduled opportunities during the school day to collaborate. In addition, if a school truly want to provide differentiated learning experiences for students – the teachers need regularly scheduled opportunities during the school day to provide targeted interventions.’ Ferriter, Graham, Wight, 2013…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/10/2013

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

  Collaborate, curriculum, data, education, middle school schedule, schedule, School administration, School Leadership, school schedule, support

• Middle School Schedule [2]: Block = Flexibility

  Our current schedule is a 7 period schedule. We take our instructional day and divide it into 7 equal blocks of time allotting additional time during lunch as well as consistent transition time between classes.  Next year, we will be moving to a modified block schedule.    There are several options and models of the…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/17/2013

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

  Change, education, learning, middle school schedule, School administration, School Leadership, school schedule, support

• 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

• Skyping In – #GRESA Conference

     Last week, I had the great opportunity to Skype into the conference with a good friend of mine from Georgia. Rod Smith, @IAmRodSmith, is the Director of Technology and Communications for Griffin-Spalding Schools. I contacted him earlier to get his help with an iPad technical issue [he is an iPad guru]. We arranged for…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/03/2013

  collaborate, commit, pln, school administration, school leadership, Skype, teachers

  2.0 Tools, Change, chats, Collaborate, communication, community, education, Hootsuite, leadership, School administration, School Leadership, Social media, stakeholders, Tweetdeck, Twitter

• 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

• New Commitments

  Happy 2011! It’s great that we’ve been blessed to see the beginning of another year! This is the time we normally set resolutions for the new year on things we’d like to do better or different. For educators, resolutions mean something else. We’ve already made a commitment to students at the beginning of the school year and…

  Derek L. McCoy

  01/03/2011

  change, commit, resolution, teachers