Your Brain Needs A Break Before You Break Your Brain
If you are: finding yourself leaving school at 6:00 PM or after more than once a week (not including athletic or other events); doing work on your computer for more….
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GREAT Back-To-School Watching!
Take a look at Nick Fuhrman’s TEDx Talk. (He’s from UGA!) He reminds us that teachers change lives!
Rules WITH and WITHOUT Relationships!
As you begin the year, you may find value in modeling relationship building for and with your faculty and staff. When we develop relationships with our students, their CHOICES often….
It All Comes Down To This…
You’ve heard that phrase before. Maybe in a trailer for the final movie in a blockbuster trilogy? A putt on the eighteenth green? A free throw with no time on….
Opportunity Is At The Door!
What awaits you at the door of your school as the teachers, and then the students and their parents arrive? Much of that will be determined on your attitude and….
Twenty Questions for Administrators at Year’s End
IF YOU’VE BEEN READING ALONG FOR THE past month or so in Principal Matters!, you’ve noticed that our answer to you at this time is a question. We’ve shared with….
A Proper Sendoff
As the 2019-2020 school year came to an end, we realized the importance of a proper sendoff. This time ‘we’ wasn’t just the principal and assistant principals, but it was….
Summer Planning for Principals
Aren’t you amazed that people have no idea what the principal does during the summer? I remember when someone, someone nice and well-intending would ask me at awards night, “what….
Twenty Year-End Questions to ask your students
You are either in the midst of administering year-end testing, are finished, or are going to begin this week. We make that massive effort to assess student performance and utilize….
How We Reset School in 22-23
We are due for a reset for school. THANK YOU for the work you’ve done over these past three school years. When I speak with school leaders, so much of….