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Why Your Kid’s Grades Wont Matter: Part Two
A few weeks back I shared with the education world the provocative statement: Grades are Dead. If you haven’t had a chance to read Why Your Kids Grades Won’t Matter: Part One, I highly encourage you to check it out. Read on for part 2. Now it would be fair to think “Ok, well clearly there are some flaws with the grading system, but since it’s still the standard method, we’re going to stick with A-F...
Do You Have What It Takes?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a principal and even more so about what it takes to be a high performing leader (dare I say a level 5 leader). So naturally, I drift to the thought, “do I have what it takes?” One of my favorite, I mean absolutely favorite quotes is from Michael Fullan when he says, “collaborative cultures rarely select newcomers only on the basis of their personal...
A Lid to Learning
Earlier this week I had a chance to connect with a head of school I really respect in Shanghai. We’re preparing for an upcoming presentation together at the EARCOS conference in Malaysia. I asked him a few questions about his leadership philosophy and one thing that stood out to me was the statement that “a leader must constantly be learning and developing, otherwise they’ll stifle the learning of the others in the...
Do You Like Kids?
Have you ever wanted to ask this question of a teacher you’ve had, or maybe a teacher you work with? It’s a very simple question, and should be obvious for anyone who works in education, but it seems in almost every school there is that person who you’re not quite sure whether they understand the simple principle that in order to work in a school you must like kids. In my career I’ve seen a number of adults...
Happy New Year
I’ve never been the kind of person to make new year’s resolution on January 1st. I guess I’ve always figured “if I can’t do it today, what will make the first day of the year any different.” It’s just recently that I realized I’ve been making resolutions all my life, they just start on September 1st…otherwise known as the beginning of the school year. So now that it’s...
