This blog post caught my eye. In times of emergency, communication is critical. Realize “emergency” is in the eye of the beholder. For the parent of a 3rd grader, a bus that is late coming back from a field trip...
Education World is featuring an excellent article on blogging for principals. A large portion of the article talks about the Raymond L. Young Elementary School blog. Pattie Thomas, the principal at Young and a close personal friend is the primary...
The article I wrote for Principal magazine, Improving Communication One Blog at a Time, is now available on the web. Click here to read the article....
The current issue of Principal magazine contains an article I authored on the subject of principal blogs. Today’s post highlights three principal blogs that I think are outstanding, each in its own way. One element that all three share is...
Check out the March/April issue of Principal magazine for my article entitled, “Improve Communication One Blog at a Time.” The article discusses the advantages of a principal communicating to faculty and staff via a blog versus other means of communication....
At the CLAS Assistant Principal Conference, we briefly touched on the concept of using blogs as a communication tool. Here are several posts which address blogging: Blogs in Plain English This short video provides an overview of what a blog...
“Is our school going to be listening to Barack Obama address the children?” This question has been a hot one on my Twitter feed, in the aisles of the grocery stores, and in phone conversations and e-mails my wife has...
Fragmentation is a real and growing problem in today’s society. We know that to produce anything of quality, we must focus and maintain that focus for a period of time. Today’s society, however, is moving in the opposite direction at...