Apr

8

Randolph Readers Share Space with G-Town

April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

While I was at Gowanda, I made a commitment to share a significant responsibility with my two wonderful colleagues, Bill Schindler and Barb Dempsey. Even though I’m now at Randolph, I plan to follow through with the commitment and so we will be leading a student tour to Switzerland, Italy and the French Riviera that leaves this Friday at [...]

Mar

19

Randolph’s “Jack Wax”

March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

So mixed in with budget preparation for last night’s BOE meeting, I got to go to the Inkley’s Sugar Farm yesterday with our kindergarten students. We got the deluxe tour, learning how the trees are tapped and how the sap becomes that delicious maple syrup we all love. Listen to this–they set up picnic tables outside and [...]

Feb

10

RCS Impact Group Impacts ME

February 10, 2009 | 4 Comments

Part of my professional growth as an administrator has included shifting from my focus on building positive relationships with students to building positive relationships with faculty and staff. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still about the kids but I realized about two years ago that I did a much better job of getting to know [...]

Nov

24

The Tech Driver Ed Program

November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There is a ton of “stuff” here at the NYSCATE conference: gadgets, interactive whiteboards, clickers for student response, hardware, software, laptops, mini notebooks, document cameras, and on and on. Lots of ideas circulating about how to use it all, the need to take a stand on where we’re going as districts, the difference between what the kids [...]

Jun

4

More to it Than Winning

June 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

Whenever our high school athletes compete in regular season and play-off games, I think they learn about much more than the technical aspects of the sport. The athletic field can be a place to learn about team work, sportsmanship, heart and how to win/lose gracefully.
I would be much more disappointed if our athletes and coaches [...]

Feb

25

Former Teacher Sentenced Today

February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments

It’s all over the local news by now, but one of our former teachers and advisors was sentenced today for grand larceny. The former teacher advised several student activities and coached during his years at GCS. During that time he managed to short our student activity accounts to the tune of at least $81,000. This [...]

Feb

14

St. Valentine Brings It

February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

Valentine’s Day is an interesting day in a school. There’s just too much pressure. We have kids who have been dating and who sometimes have differing expectations and therefore end up arguing. We have students who decide this is the perfect day to show how much they like someone. We have students who feel ignored [...]

Feb

3

A Little Perspective Gained

February 3, 2008 | 3 Comments

Our son, Tallon, plays hockey for a 15-18 year old league in Fredonia, New York. This weekend his team hosted a tournament, the Aaron Gibb tournament, named after a player on the team who was tragically killed in a car accident last April. The team played really well, with 12 of the players on our [...]

Feb

1

From the Tedious to the Titillating

February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments

We have a snow day today so my reading meeting is postponed until Wednesday. That leaves me with an unexpected “bonus” day to get some work done. I am spending the day researching grants. Not that I’m a grant writer. Not by any stretch. But I did attend a 1/2 day workshop and it is [...]

Oct

3

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Web?

October 3, 2007 | 2 Comments

Cross posted at Leader Talk
As far as education professionals go, I’m fairly liberal in my thoughts about the uses of technology in our schools, specifically access to the web. On more than one occasion, I’ve talked about opening access so that our students can explore, create and learn from sources other than us. I’ve believed [...]

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