A clipboard or tablet, watchful eyes, and listening ears. That’s all it takes to be an effective kidwatcher. Yetta Goodman, who coined the term in the 1980’s, helped educators think about the valuable data they can collect just by listening in to student conversations and by hosting one-to-one
The Brain Behind the Operation John Huston’s classic drama, Key Largo, is pure escapism for the school leader, but at the same time, the film serves as a celluloid vehicle for transporting a principal to better understanding the essence of effective decision-making. In the film, gangster
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. – Malcolm Gladwell As teachers, success in our classrooms and schools comes down to the decisions we make each and every day. To have the greatest impact on learning outcomes, these decisions have to
I am pleased to see a renewed emphasis on connectedness, collaboration, and shared responsibility. Our school in Miami-Dade was fortunate to be part of a pilot called School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM). As a principal new to the school, the teachers were eager for change and
In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel devised an experiment to test the ability of four-year- old children to delay gratification. Working in a lab at Stanford University, Mischel’s experiment was remarkably simple. A research assistant brought a 4-year-old into a room, in which there was