Let’s be honest: Professional development planning is tough. You’re juggling state mandates, teacher needs, budget constraints, and dozens of competing priorities. So, it’s no surprise that even the best school leaders sometimes overlook critical gaps that quietly undermine their PD efforts. Here’s the good news: Once you uncover these gaps, you can fix them. What we’ve found is that most … Read More
Using the 10/100/1,000 Exercise to Improve Your Time Management
Jeff Gargas discusses how to use the “10/100/1,000” exercise to improve your time management. [scroll down to keep reading] Time management has always been an issue with me. The line between what’s important and what is essential can oftentimes become so blurry. A few months ago, a friend of mine recommended the High Performance Planner by Brendon Burchard. This … Read More
Effective Decision Making: Using Core Values as the Filter
TL;DR: Reflecting on our core values helps us filter through the decisions we make to ensure they are purposeful and effective. Involving team members in decision making can help to increase the likelihood that all members support the outcome. Using core values to make decisions helps to prevent decision-making fatigue. Research shows that adults make an average of 35,000 decisions per … Read More
Let’s Get (Un)Comfortable…
TL;DR: Settling in to our comfort zone leads to stagnation. When we get outside our comfort zone, we grow and become better. Origination of “The Comfort Zone” I have always had trouble taking risks or thinking outside the box, for as long as I can remember. I often think back to my college years when it was time to choose … Read More
Personalized Learning for Professional Development
In This Post: Ways to improve your professional development days by including personalized teacher learning! The importance of useful, relevant professional development. Specific suggestions on how to include teacher voice and choice in professional learning. Professional development often becomes the running joke when teachers get together. They comment on how the speakers had great ideas, and then the speakers were … Read More
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