How School Administrators Can Connect and Make an Impact with Students Through Every Day Routines

School leadership is so big! It is incredible to think of all of the moving parts that are involved in leadership and what you need to oversee in a day. I so often talk about leadership in schools as administrators leading teachers. But today, I want to take a deep dive into how administrators can […]

A Backstage Pass to Move From Transactional to Transformational and Instructional in School Leadership

Hard decisions become a part of the job description, let’s be honest. However, hard decisions have to come with a backstage pass to tell the story behind the your decision. In this post, we are going to get real familiar with hard decisions that leaders have to make by taking a backstage pass tour of […]

High Yield Areas

There’s a lot to pay attention to when it comes to school leadership. That’s the beauty and the beast of it. The beauty is that you are so needed for ideas, input, solving problems, topics of conversation, everything, etc. The beast? Well, the beast is that you are so needed for all of the above […]

Hard Conversations

A colleague isn’t quite contributing like you want them to or perhaps you feel like they are interrupting you or undermining you. Every time you offer an idea, the resounding ‘yeah but’ or ‘no, that won’t work’ echoes a response. Someone throws you some serious shade every time you walk into work or your home. […]

Workshop Curators Day-Inviting Teachers to Lead Sessions

Late night hustling….all day thinking….endless searching for the next topic…all to ensure that your professional learning meetings or staff meetings are filled with value. Does this sound familiar? I know that my days were filled with a lot of this. I was doing all of the work! The crazy thing was that I wasn’t the […]