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Leading is Not Easy

A Principal's Reflections

One of my favorite sites to glean more insight and knowledge on leadership is Inc. Even though the site shares content specific to business growth and innovation so many of the articles and opinion pieces connect to leadership in the education space. There's no class in early education that defines leadership.

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Creating Our Own Unique Learning Environments #DigiLead

A Principal's Reflections

I could never have imagined how quickly she could radically transform this outdated space, using money that in the past had always been spent on books, magazines, and electronic databases. Change Digital Leadership educational technology Innovation Laura Fleming Makerspace New Milford High School transformation'

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A Student's Perspective on Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

I approached senior Filip Piasevoli last week and asked if he would consider taking the theme of my blog and writing his own thoughts on leadership, technology, and student-centered learning. Filip was recently featured in the April 2010 edition of Honor Student Magazine. that often has a stigma within schools.

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Twitter: A Resource For All

A Principal's Reflections

You can view the entire winter Scholastic Administrator magazine HERE ). educational leadership educational technology Twitter' Finally, how can we move more schools to embrace social media in general as a valuable educational tool?

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The Philosophy Behind Maker Success

A Principal's Reflections

Laura also collaborated with Steven and Debby Kurti from Tabletop Inventing to publish a series of articles featured in Teacher Librarian magazine that not only discuss the philosophy of makerspaces, but also provide practical implementation tips.

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Why Connect?

A Principal's Reflections

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Once I made an initial connection to supporting and enhancing professional practice I later learned how social media tools could be used to improve other areas of leadership.

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Our Quest for More R&R

A Principal's Reflections

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.