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Making Difficult Decisions In Students’ Best Interest
Like my colleagues across the globe, my daily battle revolves around how to make decisions through the lens of what is in the best interests of my students. This seems particularly trying in my current nontraditional school situation that is focused on dropout prevention, content mastery, and personalized learning—all still within the confines and with remnants of our traditional mindset. I often feel my opinion on what is in the “best interests” for our students can change several times within the same day.
Maintaining Digital Balance
Much more often than I would like to admit, a little voice can be heard chastising me from the back seat of our minivan while sitting at a traffic light: “Better left unread than dead, Mom.”
In those moments I reflect and recognize I must do better—I am not modeling or practicing what I preach. I need more digital balance, and whatever text or email I am replying to can wait until I get to my destination. The phone goes into the glove box until I get home, with a firm digital boundary set.
Let's Make Our Mental Health a Priority
Mental health includes our emotional, physical, and social well-being. It impacts how we think, relate to others, and act. In schools, mental health can determine how pressure is handled, how achievement is viewed, and the ways we process stress. Mental health is important for children of all ages and for educators too.
Educational leader Kristina MacBury recently led a discussion on Mental Health to help us, as educators, to make our mental health a priority. READ THE ARTICLE →
Arm With Happiness: Leveraging School Happiness Agency.
Happiness is literally in our genetic makeup, it is hard wired into us all and is relatively an easy lesson to grow as we develop.
How to Teach Kids Social Responsibility in a Connected World
How do we best prepare our students to be good digital citizens while incorporating 21st-century skills in their journey?
Leading with Deliberate Happiness
Leading with happiness, or rather a “happiness mindset” is deliberately looking to what is right in every situation instead of dwelling on the negative or what is missing.
The Pope as Building Principal?
What can you learn and reflect on from Pope Francis' Transformational Leadership Style as an educational leader?