Problem or Annoyance?
At your friendly neighborhood wing place, you have choices of how much heat you want on your food. Most wing spots have cool (hot?) names for their levels, including “burn….
Category: Leadership Development
The Shortage. Three Words for 2023
No news to you, but here we are, facing an employee shortage in our schools. Bus drivers, custodians. School administrators and teachers. Let’s look at the numbers: Use the data….
Criticism, Praise, and the Space Between
If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader; sell ice cream.” –attributed to Steve Jobs. How do you handle criticism? Does it bother you when people talk….
Get Ahead with Brian Buffington
Our partner in producing Carpool Karaoke for the Department of Education, podcasts and videos for the world, and fun wherever we are, Brian Buffington is in the spotlight this week….
Schoolnights
Taylor Swift recently released her album “Midnights” which captured key moments of her life’s journey. We at the Principal Matters! are dropping this album of leadership reminders on you in….
Dream Team? Your Admin Team!
How do you account for the principal’s success in leading the school? Here’s something I’ve noticed in eleven years of coaching principals: the ones with the greatest struggles almost always….
Teacher Observations Are The Beginning…
Not The End!
Small Changes Can Make Massive Differences
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho is 2,219,791 acres in size, larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. So, 14 of anything wouldn’t seem to….
Filling Your Teachers’ Buckets
You need teachers. Good teachers with energy, enthusiasm, and expertise. Your teachers face a mountain of challenges in their work, often while pushing back on criticism of the profession and….