A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Concerns center on its potential to replace human interaction and critical thinking skills. AI will NOT : Build relationships with students or staff Implement a lesson effectively Facilitate meaningful learning These limitations highlight the importance of human interaction and expertise in the educational process. Prompt all you want.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2017

With so much disruption, new generations and a hyper-connected world where information is a commodity, the leadership paradigm has to shift. The industrial revolution model of command and control leadership is no longer effective." Digital leadership is authentic in nature. That’s where the digital piece comes into play.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The beginning of the school year always renews my focus on how to improve my leadership skills. It is through leadership that we become catalysts for positive change. This cannot happen without effective leadership. Leadership is a combination of art, science, and human nature.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Human nature compels us in many cases to take the easiest possible path to success. How does the current process of observation and evaluation of staff ensure accountability while improving instruction and leadership? In fact, structures are often put in place so that it is difficult to deviate from a prescribed path.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2023

What is the essence of leadership? However, let’s look at it from the perspective of debunking what authentic leadership is, not to get at the heart of what it really is when it comes to agents of change. However, leadership is not about attracting others to follow. Leadership is about inspiring others to take action.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2023

Leadership embodies consistent qualities and characteristics that remain unchanged while the tools, research, and societal shifts influencing the work have evolved. Leadership combines artistic and scientific elements, aiming to mobilize people toward a shared objective. Leadership is a collaborative endeavor.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? The process of asking questions, listening and building campaigns around these stories is what makes youth organizing such a humanizing experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Instead, it was human nature in terms of a resistance to change that was the cause of reluctance in some of my staff. I shared the following in Digital Leadership. Leadership is about action. Human nature can be a fickle thing. There were times, like the example above, when I did not find success with change.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nearly half of the country’s 500 largest school districts had a change in leadership during the pandemic, but men still filled more than 70 percent of those vacancies, research by Women Leading Ed , a national network working to grow and strengthen the pipeline of women in education leadership, found. It was vital advice.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership. Assign tasks: AI can automatically assign tasks within your leadership team based on their skills and availability.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This post is the fourth in a series that will outline the foundational elements of my new book, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. A connected learning model is empowering and ultimately creates a human-generated search engine for the most practical ideas and strategies being implemented in schools today.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2022

While there are many challenging aspects when it comes to leadership, one that typically rises to the top is dealing with difficult personalities. We are dealing here with human beings. And we know from neuroscience that human beings share very much more in common in what drives them and causes these behaviors.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. Whether at the individual or system level, the fact remains that there is always room for growth.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2015

Since I get to work with you more this year than in the past, I thought I would share a few of my leadership beliefs… Intentionality. We must address the leadership and contextual factors that surround and infuse our work. Autonomy is a fundamental human need. (I Our work needs to be deep in meaning and rich in purpose.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership. The other is ensuring what has been learned leads to improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities is co-hosting an in-person event with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veterans and clips from the documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2018

[Instead of just challenge-based learning , how about challenge-based leadership?]. Sir Ken Robinson said in Creative Schools : Human achievement in every field is driven by the desire to explore, to test and prod, to see what happens, to question how things work, and to wonder why and ask, what if?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Image credit: Harold Jarche Leadership is a choice and not one that should be made lightly. Outside of instruction there is not a more important leadership quality that successful and effective administrators must focus on. Learning is the fuel of leadership. Basically, we get what we model.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 16, 2014

His work really made me critically reflect upon my leadership practices. The power of social media then connected the both of us leading to him Skyping with the students at New Milford High School, a personal dialogue over the years, and his endorsement of my new book on Digital Leadership.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The infographic that highlights the 65 jobs least likely to be automated, taken from The US Career Institute really drives home the importance of skills that only humans can offer—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and cultural competence.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

I now had access to a human-generated search engine where I gleaned the best resources, ideas, supports, and advice. In Digital Leadership I emphasized how input from educators is crucial to the success of any professional learning experience, as is time. If we find and see value, the emphasis becomes embracement as opposed to buy-in.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., Codifying self-love and identifying ways to capture growth is key for student progress.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Since starting this project, several people have also reached out and asked me to take their photos–including our entire special education department and our Instructional Leadership Team. Our yearbook advisor asked me to give a presentation to the yearbook staff on how to take quality portraits with their phones. Now, it’s your turn.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

It begins with a focus on improving teaching, learning, and leadership followed by utilizing an array of digital assets at every educator’s disposal to share and amplify. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Image credit: CATSY Below I go into each in detail and how you might better leverage one or all.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Leading the transition from 20th century to 21st century schools includes attention to the human toll it takes when such large changes are being required. The Pillars of Digital Leadership provide a practical framework for any leader, regardless of technological proficiency, to improve professional practice.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 16, 2015

The best leaders are able to bring their people into the future because they engage in the oldest form of research: They observe the human condition." John Ryan elaborated on the topic and how leadership success always starts with a vision. In his article he states that compelling visions can truly change the world.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

“Effective leadership is not about speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker There is always an innate desire to be popular. Chalk this up to human nature, right or wrong. Leadership is about action. Our culture idolizes movie stars, musicians, and professional athletes.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

I see this as a real opportunity for writing centers to show leadership if they're given an opportunity,” says Sherry Wynn Perdue, president of the International Writing Centers Association. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Compassionate teaching and leadership consider any type of suffering and move towards specific actions to relieve it. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human." Other areas that can show flexibility include deadlines, attendance, and general with teachers and students. The virus will eventually be subdued.

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TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

Healthcare managers are pivotal in upholding safe, efficient, and economical practices across healthcare settings, equipped with expertise in HR, billing, business documentation, procedures, policies, and leadership. Collaborating with colleagues in allied health, you strive towards a shared objective.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Among them is: How will we ensure diverse leadership in this country if student diversity decreases at Ivy League and other top colleges? We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government?

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

In my classroom, I treat students as humans first, not obstacles to classroom management. I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself. We will also let each other down, but we are in the work of being openly human all the time, and that’s okay.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2014

Excuses are just a part of human existence. Excuses are fueled by elements such as fear of change, a desire to protect the status quo, lack of education/knowledge, top-down leadership, micromanagement, and the unwillingness to take risks. Change Innovation Leadership'

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

“ Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.” - Brené Brown Change is hard. It is even more challenging to sustain. While there are many obstacles to individual or system growth, fear and comfort tend to lead the pack. Both work to stymie a desire to improve for different reasons.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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