100 Posts in 100 Days In Post 52: Making the Most of My Summer Conference, I shared that I was preparing for a professional learning session. I’ve just blinked and it’s over already! During our closing session, we sat in a circle and each participant shared takeaways and commitments as a result of our time… More #57: Holding Space
100 Posts in 100 Days It’s time for “The Pulse”, a collection of things that I have found interesting lately and that are keeping me going. A Slight Change of Plans: The Thai Cave Rescue (Podcast) First off, let me share that “A Slight Change of Plans” was named by Apple as the best podcast… More #55: The Pulse
“What’ on/off the plate”, an extended metaphor and perspective on this common sentiment.… More #53: Leadership Perspective: What’s On The Plate?
100 Posts in 100 Days In yesterday’s reflective post about unlearning, relearning, rethinking, and reimagining I shared that it is my role as communicator and connector that has been on my mind. After writing the post, I recalled talking with my friend and colleague Kristen Moreland for her vlog “On the Balcony” about a… More #48: Stringing Pearls
Move from “what did you do” to “what did you learn?”.… More #47: “What Did You Learn?”
100 Posts in 100 Days This post will go live on June 15, 2022, the last day of the 2021-2022 school year at Graded. What a ride it has been! At any given moment, it has felt like the longest year ever. Weirdly, it also has felt like yesterday was the first day of the… More #46: Looking Back on ’21-’22
100 Posts in 100 Days As I wrote about constructive anecdotal feedback yesterday and my own experience receiving information that I could be hard to read, I recalled a time early in my career when I attended a training and received a handout with 2 parallel lists. The list on the left was one of… More #44: When Strengths Become Weaknesses
100 Posts in 100 Days In the last few installments of 100 Posts in 100 Days, I have written about my own experiences with feedback that is used. First, I shared the impact of various 360 survey tools, followed by how a series of anecdotal compliments revealed a pattern of behavior that I have come… More #43: Anecdotal Feedback That Is Used, Part 2
100 Posts in 100 Days Yesterday’s post illustrated one form of feedback that I have used: a 360 survey process. The quantitative and explicit nature of that form of feedback was very useful to me in developing asset-based action plans for my growth and development. I feel it did help me improve as a school… More #42: Anecdotal Feedback That Is Used, Part 1
100 Posts in 100 Days Yesterday, I shared our school’s propensity to use John Dewey’s quote about learning comes not from the experience, but from reflecting on experience. We have a second idea that we discuss often in our school which was shared with us by Dr. Kevin Mattingly, a Professor of Practice at the… More #41: Seminal Experiences: 360 Feedback That Is Used