Why We Need Principals by @ShiraLeibowitz
There are questions that resonate, holding our imaginations and keeping us wondering. There are questions that activate our learning, causing us to reflect and helping us to grow. Do We Need Principals? asked Josh Stumpenhorst in a blog post last May. Do We Need (Great) Principals? responded George Couros replying to a question with a question in a blog post [...]
Engage – Part 3 by @ScottRRocco
On March 2, 2013 I had the honor and privilege to give the keynote at WEtech 13. The theme of the conference was Technology + Teaching = Student Engagement and the theme of my keynote was ENGAGE. Below is the last of three postsfrom my speech designed to encourage educators to engage in the use of technology to improve instruction [...]
ENGAGE – Part 2 by @ScottRRocco
On March 2, 2013 I had the honor and privilege to give the keynote at WEtech 13. The theme of the conference was: [...]
ENGAGE – Part 1 by @ScottRRocco
On March 2, 2013 I had the honor and privilege to give the keynote at WEtech 13. The theme of the conference was Technology + Teaching = Student Engagement and the theme of my keynote was ENGAGE. Below is the first in a series of excerpts from my speech designed to encourage educators to engage in the use of [...]
Writer’s Block by @PrincipalJ
Here is another cross-post from my staff memo blog that will post tomorrow morning for my “Monday Musings.” —————————————————————————————— Writer’s Block While having a mental block of not feeling like I have anything worthy of sharing with you all in a Monday Musings post (because I’ve spent my weekend in a book entirely for pleasure, [...]
Where is my Leadership Mojo? And how will I get it back? by @DrSpikeCook
Being a reflective leader can be very difficult. Basically, if I am being honest in my reflections I have to write about the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am not sure which category this would fit into, but I need to come clean on something…. I feel like I lost my leadership mojo. [...]
The Age of Uncertainty: Who is Bold? by @DrSpikeCook
I love it when ideas converge. I wrote a blog post on the plane traveling to ASCD 2013 on the concpet of uncertainty. Then, as luck would have it, soon after finishing my session, I had the opportunity to hear from Will Richardson. Honestly, I needed time to decompress after my session, but I couldn’t miss the man who has [...]
Connecting with great educators at #ASCD13 by @PrincipalJ
This is the first of several posts I’ll be writing to share about my awesome learning at the #ASCD13 conference in Chicago. Of all the conferences I have ever attended, ASCD was definitely the best for 2 reasons: 1. I met almost all of my favorite “Tweeps” from my Twitter PLN in real life, which [...]
How to Turn Your Great Ideas into a Great ASCD Book by @PrincipalJ
I have never shared this publicly on my blog, but I have a big dream of publishing a book. If you follow my twitter conversations on the Wednesday night #educoach chat, then you could probably guess what I’d like to write about (and have been working on for quite some time now with Shira Leibowitz [...]
Change by @DrSpikeCook
Change is neither good or bad, it simply is…. As a principal it is inevitable that you will be required to implement change. There are a range of possibilities of change from the mundane to the kind of change that keeps you up for 3 nights plotting, planning and organizing. I have been [...]




