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New Year, New School, New Socks
I’m not sure which of the items in the title that I am most excited about. I found Spiderman, Wolverine and Captain America Socks at a comic book store in Edmonton last week. Being 87% nerd, that got...
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More Advice to New Principals
This portion of the video has to do with relationships and making change.
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Engaging in Engagement
Alberta’s Framework for Education (education.alberta.ca/media/6581166/framework.pdf) outlines a path to take our students on to allow them to become engaged thinkers and ethical citizens with an...
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It’s always Teachers’ Convention when you’re on Twitter!
Over the next two days, our School Division is participating in the North Central Teachers’ Convention. www.mynctca.com. I have always liked convention as an opportunity to get together with...
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Go Find Your Parade!!
In my daily perusal of what’s going on in the Twitterverse, I came across this quote posted by @ShawnUpchurch, “Leadership involves Finding a Parade and getting in front of it.” (John Naisbitt) This is...
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Learning Together as Leaders
The Sturgeon School Division Admin group is meeting in PLC groups we have formed. Most schools are working in small groups with other admin teams on topics they have chosen. In my case my VP and I are...
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Moving Forward with Agile Leadership
Sitting in a session on Agile Leadership today in Edmonton. Our division principals and many of our system leadership is present. We are discussing the practices of leadership to influence the...
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Finding Passion
I was asked to participate in a Discovery Education Ignite event last week. The way it works is you prepare 20 slides and plan to speak on each one for 15 seconds. I decided to present on the idea of...
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Just Outside of the Comfort Zone
My professional growth this year has been focused in the area of instructional leadership. I set myself a goal of being more involved directly in the task. There are a lot of great things going on at...
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Back to the Good stuff
This year, as a school we’ve decided to make Balanced Literacy our focus. An outsider might think, “What!! Balanced Literacy has been around forever and you’re just focusing on it now??!! Where have...
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Back At It
Another school year has started. We have some new staff, many new students, and with that a few new families represented. The school year has started smoothly, but it wouldn’t be a start up if there...
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