This is a site that challenges the walls of our mind, our classrooms, our houses to transform into windows. These windows allow us to collaborate, connect, learn, and inspire each other through being visible, modelling, and instilling healthy habits every, single, day.
Good teaching is good teaching. No matter what language or subject you are teaching in, good teaching that engages, inspires and motives the learner will prevail. The teaching and leading actions stay the same, the only thing that changes is the outcome or subject. The same goes for leaders in schools. They are teachers too […]
Research shows the key to leadership and success is through relationships and building trust with your community. I have heard it over and over again through my mentors, my research, my own work and success, and through colleagues. It’s important and it matters. But the common thread that keeps coming up, is that it is […]
The best way to know you are making an impact on student and teacher learning is by being intentional about how you plan for the work to happen and how you notice the work that is happening before, during, and after. It also is important to be intentional with how you measure it at multiple […]
As I move through my leadership journey, I have started to get a lot better at the art of noticing. I notice and reflect on my journey each day and it is incredible what I learn from noticing the patterns of trends of the conversations that I have. Particularly, I started to pay attention to […]
As leaders, our main job is to grow as many leaders as we can in our community. In a school, that includes our teachers and our students. In leadership, leaders sometimes feel that they are alone when actually there is a whole community of leaders who are at the door just waiting to be invited […]
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Throughout my year, I have made a commitment to spend an hour a day for a week with individual teachers collaborating, reflecting, and team teaching with them. My intention was to build relationship, provide support, connect and learn from each other. Team teaching for a week with teachers throughout this past year has been the […]
To be visionary as a leader, is to be visible. We have to be where the people are so that we can really see what is happening with their story. Not only that, we learn. We lead better when we know what is happening inside the walls because we are there too. However, we need […]
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