Sep

30

Transparency in Leadership, Reason #3

September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

Reason #3 for Administrators to Blog
Okay, here’s the tricky part. It’s risky to put yourself out here each and every day. You’ve got to have some chutzpah to do it. But if you haven’t got the moxie, what are you doing in administration in the first place? It’s our job to lead, not just lead [...]

Sep

30

Influence Thinking, Reason #2

September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Reason #2 for Administrators to Blog
Have you ever had a story come back to you that was nothing like what you know for a fact really happened? Unless you’re an administrator in a one room school house with two kids who both belong to you, I’m guessing you’ve had this experience.
Blogging is one way to [...]

Sep

30

Connections to Other Administrators, Reason #1

September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

Reason #1 for Administrators to Blog
We’re relatively isolated in our work, right? We work with people all day and we might be able to meet as an administrative team, but that doesn’t mean that the high school principal understands the issues the special ed director has to handle. It doesn’t mean that real conversation can [...]

Sep

30

Commenting on the Blog

September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

Did you know that you don’t have to be TOTALLY PUBLIC about who you are when you post a comment to the blog? It is  true that you have to post your actual email address. This is so that I know yours is a legitimate comment before approving it and so that your comment doesn’t land in the [...]

Sep

30

School Leaders: Why Should They Blog?

September 30, 2009 | 10 Comments

I’m attending a workshop on Thursday entitled “Unleashing the Power of Web-Based Tools for Every School Leader: Using Digital Tools for Instruction, Communication, Community building, and Professional Development” as presented by Dr. Kathleeen P. King, Professor of Education at Fordham University. Iroquois Superintendent Neil Rochelle and I are presenting in the middle of the day [...]

Sep

29

Smashed Yellow Suburban

September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

Maybe you noticed our smashed yellow suburban in the parking lot last week? I didn’t blog about it because, well, I didn’t think it was newsworthy. I should have realized it would elicit a reaction and that anyone who saw it might wonder what happened. Randolph being Randolph, I assumed word would travel quickly in [...]

Sep

28

Mentoring Opportunity

September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I thought we’d give the blog a shot for recruitment purposes today. We are looking to develop a Youth Mentoring site at Randolph–mentors who can serve as positive adult role models to students. We do have one youth mentor who I know worked with an elementary student last year and I think it was rewarding to them both. [...]

Sep

22

Student Teaching

September 22, 2009 | 14 Comments

Our daughter, Bryna, is currently student teaching in a small neighboring district. She’s majoring in childhood education, grades 1-6. When it was time to sign up for student teaching, Bryna left her placement up to chance. She didn’t want to be encumbered or helped by my potential relationship with anyone in her placement districts. I [...]

Sep

17

How’s Your School Year Going?

September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments

“How’s your school year going?” I sure get that question a lot. Generally I think people just ask it to be polite. But it made me think about all of the things we’re working on and how appropriate an update might be about now. Most of this post will also be in the next school [...]

Sep

8

Buffalo News Tackles HS Sports

September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here’s a link to a story in the Buffalo News today by News sport columnist Bucky Gleason. Mr. Gleason takes a strong stance against the “boorish behavior of parents that’s infected youth sports”. Go check out the link and let me know if this kind of behavior affects us here in Randolph.
I’ve been an administrator [...]

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