In our relentless efforts to prepare students for state testing, it is crucial to acknowledge that success encompasses more than just acquiring subject knowledge. Success encompasses more than just students taking state tests without becoming overwhelmed. While managing stress during state testing is essential, true success goes beyond that. Success includes students feeling confident in […]
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Professional learning is an integral part of school culture and developing staff. Summer is a great time to reflect and revitalize yourself as an educator. One area that applies to both of these is professional development. Even though we know professional learning is important, a 2015 TNTP report found only 30% of teachers improve significantly
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Summer is just around the corner, which, depending on where you’re located, probably means it’s warming up. Synonymous with this warming trend is a break in the education processes for students. In other words, school is out. Just as summer brings fun with friends and family vacations it also brings the missing of friends and
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Unprecedented challenges! A new school year is underway, and students are facing unprecedented challenges as most are having to “learn how to learn” in a whole new way. Due to the learning hurdles dictated by COVID, students have brought traditional classroom learning back into their own homes, giving a huge rise to the relatively new
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Changes in Communication Communicating with stakeholders of a school is an integral part of a successful school year. When this school year began we were faced with extreme changes in meeting requirements. Although the changes were related to the physical environment and sanitation requirements, these policy changes had a direct effect on communication. In a
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Why so much stress? For teachers to meet the needs of their students they must first meet their own needs. One of the biggest needs that I have observed during this pandemic is the need to relieve stress at school. I am the principal of an elementary school that has 25 certified teachers and 20
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Entering the Online Classroom I have been hearing from fellow administrators, how are you going to evaluate online instruction? As teachers navigate new teaching platforms and methods, administrators must navigate the same topic from a completely different perspective. We need to find a way to evaluate instruction that we view from our desks rather than
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What is Social Emotional Learning? Social Emotional Learning and school climate and culture are directly related. But how can we work smart and not hard to improve both? One of the biggest trends in education today is Social and Emotional Learning, supported by cutting edge resources for education that make implementation more effective and engaging.
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