Category: Organizational Structure

In education, we need to learn to be prompt, efficient, and to the point with meetings. We have a “meeting” problem in education – meaning that we meet far too often and far too long when we do meet. People don’t like to work for inefficient organizations. I would work […]

Best Practices. When you hear that phrase as an educator, you are about to implement something in your classroom whether it works or not. It is a phrase that conveys that others have vetted this idea, and that the idea is unimpeachable. Usually those best practices are accompanied by vague […]

The single, greatest influence (of what kind of teacher you will be) is the person you train under as a student teacher or intern. I was blessed to work with two of the best teachers on the planet as an intern. Later, during my first years of actual teaching, I […]

Does courtroom experience matter when hiring a prosecutor? Would we hire a plumber who had no experience fixing pipes? Would any of us want a phlebotomist who was drawing blood for the first time? Nope, nope, and NO! Then, why are we hiring people into administrative positions in education who […]

How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success. If you want an out-of-the-box PLC book study topic, I think this would be a great option. That title gets my attention. I listen to a pretty wide variety of podcasts. Magnus and Marcus On Coaching is a […]

I believe in school improvement. If we are going to maintain relevancy in public education, we have to have continual renewal. However, we must make sure that we are actually writing plans which promote actual improvement which includes long term retention of learned material. Many of these SIP plans look […]

Effective teachers have a broad bank of instructional materials to supplement lesson design and delivery. Some of that material is purchased by teachers, and some of it is just material that school systems purchased during past textbook adoptions. It is a vast and valuable library that is often found in […]

I could do an entire blog on student discipline. I have worked in schools where student discipline was rarely a problem. I worked in a school where principals and assistant principals rewarded only the students who were struggling, and rarely recognized the kids who took care of business every day. […]

Continuing Education – A Better Approach. The very best professional development coordinator that I have ever worked with was a man who went by the name of Charles. He was our professional development coordinator at the time. He always had a wide range of pertinent speakers and collaborations available for […]