Good Sports

Good Sports

It’s fall. The temperature is crisp, and the leaves are turning bright. On any given Friday night at almost any high school in the United States, the air is filled with the sound of cheering, marching bands, the thunder of cleats and, hopefully, only the...
Struggles Are Teachable Moments

Struggles Are Teachable Moments

  I recently cleaned out my files and bookshelves with the goal of keeping only the essentials I want and need for providing professional development and support for educators. In the purging process, I came across Ted and Nancy Sizer’s gem from 1999 titled, The...
Leadership and Academic Success

Leadership and Academic Success

As a high school administrator—first an assistant principal and then a principal—I gave a lot of thought to the kind of behaviors I wanted to model for students.  Students rarely see their administrators as full human beings who studied in high school, completed...
Engaging Parents Through Student Health

Engaging Parents Through Student Health

Like many educators, the subject of school comes up in conversation in all kinds of settings. Recently, I was sitting at a wedding reception, enjoying the blissful scene of the newly-married couple showing off their tutored first dance when my cousin-in-law’s wife sat...