As I journey toward school administration mastery, I find myself learning new strategies and techniques every day. Too many times, however, I’m learning these strategies the hard way – by making mistakes. One of the main skills that administrators need to have is how to investigate reports of rules violations. I’ve been pretty good at […]
As I journey toward School Administration Mastery, I’m finding that I have to deal with a lot of discipline. Students are being sent to me for a variety of reasons ranging from being disrespectful to teachers to fighting in the locker room. The way it works is that a teacher will send a student to […]
I had the busiest day of my administrative career the other day. It wasn’t stressful or emotionally-draining – just busy. My to-do list was already large to begin with, but so many other tasks seemed to appear on as the day wore on. I learned really fast that in order to get home at a […]
I wanted to share something that my principal instituted at the beginning of the year for the admin team. It’s called Iron Sharpens Iron. The idea is to have each member of the admin team (Principal, Assistant Principal, Student Advisor, and Counselor) bring a short lesson on something that can be beneficial to the group during […]