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Leadership-life Fit: Close out this Year and Prepare to Welcome 2023
Posted In: Asst/Assoc Principals, Elementary Principals, ML/Sec Principals, Superintendents,
Date posted Dec 6

Creating time for self-reflection to learn, celebrate, and close out a year offers opportunities to reframe, refocus, and refuel. Schedule an hour...

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Leadership-life Fit: Accelerating Your Personal and Professional Growth
Posted In: Asst/Assoc Principals, Elementary Principals, ML/Sec Principals, Superintendents,
Date posted Oct 24

Take a cue from Ben Franklin’s process goal-setting and accounting process to meet your personal/professional goals! Read more

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Words Not to Say
Posted In: Asst/Assoc Principals, Elementary Principals, ML/Sec Principals, Superintendents,
Date posted Oct 24

Dan Rockwell in a recent Leadership Freak post offers Things Smart Leaders Don’t Say. The following is a summary that appears in Kim...

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Building Trust to Build Collective Efficacy: The ABCs of Soliciting and Accepting Feedback
Posted In: Asst/Assoc Principals, Elementary Principals,
Date posted Oct 24

Want to raise teacher self-efficacy? Transform fear of failure into willingness to try through strengthening collaboration among teachers. These...

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Legal Lessons Follow-up: Resolving residency issues
Posted In: Elementary Principals,
Date posted Oct 24

This resource can assist you in resolving residency issues. Access the resource

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What Is Developmentally Appropriate in Early Childhood?
Posted In: Elementary Principals,
Date posted Oct 24

Access the key insights from the most recent research in order to best serve your youngest learners. The 4th and most recent iteration of the...

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Managing Polarities in School Instructional Cultures
Posted In: Elementary Principals,
Date posted Oct 24

Math scores went up, but reading scores went down. You created time for teacher collaboration, but now teachers are concerned by lack of individual...

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Planning for Social Emotional Learning
Posted In: Superintendents,
Date posted Oct 24

Whether you’re looking to identify your current SEL needs, build internal capacity, garner stakeholder support, or adjust your current...

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Building a Strong Relationship with your Superintendent
Posted In: ML/Sec Principals,
Date posted Oct 23

Check out these three tips from a recent Education Week article for building an impactful principal-superintendent relationship. Be sure you...

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Advice for New Principals: The 4 Things to Focus on First
Posted In: ML/Sec Principals,
Date posted Oct 23

Be proactive in these four areas to uplevel your leadership this month! The following are adapted from a recent Education Week article that provides...

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Key Factors in Successful Project-Based Learning
Posted In: ML/Sec Principals,
Date posted Oct 23

This summary is reprinted with permission from Kim Marshall, Marshall Memo #957, (October 17, 2022). In this article in Kappan, Steven Wolk...

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Leadership-Life Fit – Thoughtful Thinking
Posted In: Asst/Assoc Principals, Elementary Principals, ML/Sec Principals, Superintendents,
Date posted May 17

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