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5 Ways to Deal with a Red Light/Green Light Leader
For most educators it’s hard to not have at least one working experience with a typical Red Light/Green Light administrator. It usually starts with a stroke of inspiration while relaxing with coworkers on Friday night or if you work in Asia in the middle of a foot massage. You’ve just discovered the solution to a nagging school problem. On Monday, after the morning rush has passed, you walk into the “gate...
Bridging The ESL Divide
Like many international schools in Asia the classroom’s in my school seem to be swarming with English language learners. We have an ESL department that works hard to bring students up to mainstream requirements, yet I find myself constantly battling a divide in my classes between strong English speakers and English language learners… By the way, what’s the deal with all the different terminology, ESL, ELL TEFL, LEP,...
How Can School Leaders Improve Teacher Motivation?
Some interesting insights about where people find their motivation. How does this change the way school leaders should work to improve...
Harvard Study: What Makes Young Leaders…
Is the student who organizes tag during recess or chooses to help a classmate with math on track to be a senator, a CEO, or a community leader? He—or she—may well be. Behaviors like embracing novel experiences, supporting peers, even pestering parents for lessons can predict whether a child will emerge as a leader in adulthood, according to researchers who say they are the first to plot a pathway from childhood experiences to adult...
Leadership Myth #5: CEOs Need To Be Great Leaders
I came across an interesting article this week that lists 5 common myths of leadership. Number 5 reads: The Position Myth- “This is truly the greatest misunderstanding of what leadership is. Think about it, if you are a top CEO, a president of a company or a manager, are you really a great leader? Some people might naturally be great leaders at these positions and that is how they earned them but NO, just being at a top...
