Tag: decision making

• One of My Defining Days

  I had one of those days this week that helped remind me why I became an educator and why I’ve always worked with kids. The Meeting Wednesday, at our principals meeting, three of our assistant superintendents met with me and four other middle school principals regarding a STEM program sponsored by Fayetteville State University. This…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/24/2013

  change, data, middleschool, school administration, school leadership, student centered

  Change, Collaborate, data, decision making, leadership, School Leadership, vision

• Middle School Schedule [5]: Intervention and Operations

     The transition next year is about  bettering how we teach and how students learn, those are first and foremost. Our discussions in SIT and leadership focus on how this move will significantly affect those areas and change what we do. One opportunity created from this move is our ability to manipulate our schedule  and…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/03/2013

  change, collaborate, school administration, school leadership, student centered

  21st Century Learning, Change, curriculum, decision making, school schedule

• Middle School Schedule [3]: Support

     We have school leadership meetings twice a month in my current school district, Cumberland County Schools. The topic of one of our middle school principal break out sessions centered around our thoughts, vision and plans for our school schedules for next year.    This was a great meeting. It’s obvious that there has been…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/23/2013

  collaborate, plc, school administration, school leadership, teachers

  Change, Collaborate, decision making, education, leadership, 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

• 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

• 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