One of the biggest challenges we hear around here as it relates to staff time and focus on priorities is coverage. We all know what happens when someone is out sick or off campus. Covering that person’s work and role can really throw off everyone else’s plans! While...
During a recent class with Boston College’s Lynch Leader Fellows, we conducted Together Tours as ways to show off our Together Tools from the summer, and no joke, the chat LIT UP when Sam Harrison, an assistant principal at Academy of the Pacific Rim Public Charter...
I had not planned to write this particular blog post on this particular Monday morning (usually reserved for deeper writing and design work), but since I have received a flurry of interruptions, well, hey, why not? It went something like this. . . 7:45 AM Call from a...
I have a long-acknowledged aversion to unpacking from trips, anything related to laundry (besides getting it started), and certain tax-related work tasks. The other day, I was deep in dread about unpacking from about five different work and personal trips, and I got...
Long fascinated with Montessori Education over here (and all things early childhood), and I was recently lucky to train the entire team over at City Garden Montessori School in St. Louis. We got to talking about adding Buffer Time (aka strategic breaks) into our days,...
Since Naji’s full Microsoft tour was a huge hit, let’s jump back in to the Microsoft World (okay, now Madonna’s Material World is in my brain, sorry!). It can be hard to get out of the outline and indentation form of organizing information. But for those of us that...
