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Attention! Education hiring managers and interview committees: if your goal is to engage with your candidates as people and future colleagues, these are some potential questions you should start an interview…
In the spirit of teaching excellence, I challenge you to incorporate a strategy that I implemented early in my teaching career. The ‘Positive Parent Phone Call Challenge’ are strategic, positive parent phone calls employed to improve the…
Kindness is a virtue central to my value system. Kindness encompasses generosity, tenderness, hospitality, grace, affection, and patience. I implement programs in schools to support a ‘culture of kindness’. Many…
Abundance Thinking For Educators
The concept of deficit-thinking versus abundance-thinking are easily identifiable when you walk into any given school. As a teacher and an administrator I am struck by the impact that scarcity-thinking has on many of the educators I know. It is negative self-talk in teacher-speak. It is a…