Anyone who’s ever worked in a school building knows that effective principals can accelerate student learning—by a lot. If any proof of this were needed, a systematic survey of two decades of research ...

This year, Principal Jennifer Hammond and her team of assistant principals will conduct three formal classroom observations of every teacher at Grand Blanc High School, a campus of 2,700 students in ...

Apr. 16—Familiar faces will be in new leadership roles for Dalton Public Schools during the 2024-25 school year. The Dalton Board of Education this week approved 5-0 new principals for four schools ...

The week before the holiday break came with a special present for some Lafayette Parish teachers, instructional leaders, assistant principals and principals — being honored as a leader in their field.

Recently, Michael Sonbert wrote an opinion piece for this blog critiquing an article I published in ASCD’s Educational Leadership on feedback in instructional coaching. In the process, he castigated ...

Horn Elementary School Assistant Principal Michael Hunt quietly entered a third grade class, clipboard in hand, and headed to the big white board at the head of the room. Hunt proceeded to write down ...

Last fall, ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, became the subject of widespread discussion, from lighthearted memes about robots taking over to genuine confusion about the capabilities and ...

“I’ve never done this work alone,” I thought as I looked around the high school gymnasium at the other instructional coaches and school leaders. We had been given a critical, quick-write prompt to ...

Recently I visited with Cory Loveless, veteran math teacher at West Fargo High School who has also served as an instructional coach. Like many excellent teachers, Cory works hard at his craft, cares ...

A recent study led by alumna Jodee A. Prudente, Ph.D., BCBA-D, principal at Marvin Picollo School, and MaryAnn Demchak, Ph.D., BCBA-D, professor of special education at the University of Nevada, Reno, ...

If you care about school leadership or culture and don’t know Michael Sonbert, you really should. He’s been a teacher and a novelist, cut his teeth as a coach working in the nation’s largest ...

The Rantoul City Schools board welcomed recent hires Amy Hayden (prekindergarten administrator), Nakia Benson (technology director) and Wendy Starwalt (Pleasant Acres principal) at its Thursday ...