Oct

28

Sectional Season

October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment

You may think it’s Autumn but at Randolph the season is Sectional! Thanks to the regular season success of our student athletes and coaches, our teams are going strong. Read about our teams and plan a night out to watch our kids.
Check out the #1 RCS Girls Volleyball team this week– tonight as they play [...]

Oct

21

H1N1 Clinic at Randolph Central School

October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce that Cattaraugus County will be offering an H1N1 Clinic here on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Vaccines will be available on a first come, first served basis to any RCS enrolled school children. There is no cost to the family and the child must be [...]

Oct

13

Can We Truly Reach EVERY Student?

October 13, 2009 | 6 Comments

I can’t stop thinking about this post by Chris Lehmann, Principal at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Chris is talking about charter schools like KIPP and Mastery Charter and the Ted Ginn Academy. While we don’t have charter schools in our immediate area, I’m intrigued by the conversation. I can anticipate that we will be [...]

Oct

8

Silent Auction at RCS

October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

If you’ve noticed most of our buses parked outside the bus garage in the past two weeks, that’s because we have a large number of items inside the bus garage for our Silent Auction. With the snow ready to fly, we need to get those buses back inside so please consider participating in the District’s [...]

Oct

1

Keeping It Real, Reason #4

October 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

Reason #4 for Administrators to Blog
In many ways, the best reason to blog is the personal side of it. I can write ten posts about the business of running a school and receive two comments total. But if I write one post as a parent or a friend, I’ll receive ten comments on those two [...]

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 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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