Teaching Students Empathy Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It is a critical skill for students to develop, as it allows them to build relationships with their peers, resolve conflicts, and make sound decisions.
Unfortunately, many students lack empathy. This is due to a...
Setting SMART Goals as A Teacher
As a teacher, you are constantly striving to improve your practice and help your students learn. One of the best ways to do this is to set goals for yourself. By setting goals, you can focus your efforts on areas that you want to improve, and you can track your progress over time.
There are...
Understanding The Power of Words and Actions in Developing School Culture
A school leader is someone who has the responsibility of leading a school and developing school culture. This can include principals, teachers, staff, and students. School leaders play a vital role in the education of students. They are responsible for creating a positive and supportive learning...
Leading with Grace through Flops, Falls, and Fails
By Jessica Cabeen
I have been in education for over 20 years (and in administration for 15), and this marks my first year in a new administrative role. With all that experience, someone might think it would be a smooth transition to the new school year.
However, within the first week of teachers...
How to Improve Your PD with a Pineapple
The idea of observing other teachers is nothing new. It’s the way we all first started learning how to teach, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a teacher who hadn’t learned something from sitting in a colleague’s classroom.
Observing each other teach is one of...
Leading Up with HEARTS
By Lisa Parry
What is my principal thinking?
She can’t be serious!
There is no way this is going to work.
Her plan will fall flat.
We can’t sit idly by and watch this happen.
This won’t be good for kids.
Who is going to tell her? Huh? Who?
Me? You want me to tell her?
I...
My Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning Observations
By Dr. Doug Green
In New York State, a certified administrator from a different building must observe each teacher at least once a year. This started about six years ago—thanks to the thinking that too many insufficient teachers received good evaluations from principals who were their...
ReAssess … ReConsider … ReImagine
By Dr. Tony P. Sinanis and Joe Sanfelippo
One of the greatest opportunities that consistently presents itself to educators is the opportunity to reassess, reconsider, and reimagine our practices.
Whether it happens when we transition from one quarter to another or one school year to the...
Retaining our Great Teachers
By Martin Silverman
In 1966, the phenomenal Motown trio The Supremes sang the classic song “You Keep Me Hangin' On." Though this song speaks of a couple with differing opinions on the state of their relationship, the song's message resonates today with educators as we consider how to keep...
What Gen X Leaders Need to Know About Gen Y Teachers
By Lisa Parry, M.Ed.
As a Gen Xer leader—born in 1972 and serving as an educator since 1994—I remember my family’s first desktop computer and bag phone. Each were expensive, complicated, daunting behemoths.
My parents introduced these alien devices to my brother and me...
