It’s that time of year where many educators (myself included) are preparing to meet with their administrator for the glorious summative meeting. Throughout my career, I’ve experienced a wide variety of these that have been anything from a short five-minute conversation to an hour-long meeting where I was required to bring a binder of evidence … Continue reading What Is My Principal Really Looking for in my Summative?| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach
If you’re in education you’ve probably either heard of or experienced ” teacher burn-out,” a condition that results from being over-worked or under-valued or the experience of a disconnect between the work you required to do with the truths you know to be true about teaching. This Wednesday my social worker gave a presentation to … Continue reading Compassion Fatigue| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach
So I used to think that there was some magical formula or a needed in-depth plan to building capacity and strengths of others as a leader, but the longer I am a principal (I know a whopping 6 month…| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach