Two of my favorite school leaders wrote me earlier this year about feeling completely overwhelmed toward the end of the school year. On the one hand, they face the immediacy of state and district testing, hiring new staff, report cards, parent conferences, student...
I wrote awhile back about how to decide what to put on your Calendar versus what to add to your To-Do List. Now it seems about time for a pop quiz to test the systems. As a finalist judge for Teach for America’s Annual Social Innovation award, I recently received a...
The end-of-school-year thing is TOUGH! There are many great articles floating around out there full of resources to help you thrive, not just survive, until the end. But perhaps you feel like there’s still something missing? If so, I recommend my most recent...
I was recently corresponding with Dana D., a school leader in Delaware, who apologized for being delayed on an email reply and explained she’d been very sick. She asked me to write more about how to recover from a setback when your system goes off the rails. As fate...
Friends, I know you are out there. I’ve never really entered a contest before (minus the National Meet Your Penpal Contest I won in middle school, but that is another story), and I’ve never really asked for your help. For years now, educators far and wide have been...
