by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
Recently, this post was shared with me on Twitter: Communication Tools for School Leaders | Evolving Educators It’s a very good look at the need to communicate and respond in many ways to all the stakeholders in the school community. I would add another item to the list: Blogging Why should education administrators blog? For […]
This past year, I was fortunate to work with Robert Dunn and Steven Katz on a research project which used case management techniques to deeply study the reasons why students were not attending school, and therefore not succeeding in graduating. The experience reinforced the observation that complex issues require complex solutions, and blanket strategies to […]
I enjoy reading Hattie’s work (Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers), but in all the quality time I have spent with Hattie’s writing, I have only really thought about how it applied to children/students. My first day in #etMOOC changed all that. I have been encouraging educators I work with to engage in the […]
When I first started connecting online and building the amazing PLN I have today, I saw all of the wonderful things people were doing and the changes they were making in education. I thought it couldn’t be that hard if so many people were doing it and being so successful at it. But when I […]
Recently, I heard a leader in education say,“If you think you are leading, and nobody is following, you are only out taking a walk”. I really liked this at the time, but the more I think about it, the more value I see in taking a walk. While we usually want to move forward with […]
Back when I was involved with the Ministry of Natural Resources Critical Incident Stress Peer Support Team, I was fortunate to spend time with Dr. Martin Rappeport. At the time, he gave me some career changing advice about teaching. He told me to stop trying to be so many different things in the classroom, and […]
It’s March Break. It’s beautiful outside, but I am inside researching. And I am frustrated. There is plenty out there telling me that we need school reform. Granted, most of it is actually aimed at the US, but as a current secondary principal, I know Ontario secondary schools have to be a target as well. […]
