During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 10 years. You can see all those collections from the first nine years here.
Here are the ones I鈥檝e published so far:
The 11 Most Popular Classroom Q&A Posts of the Year
School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis
Best Ways to Begin the School Year
Best Ways to End the School Year
Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning
Challenging Normative Gender Culture in Education
Cooperative & Collaborative Learning
Teaching English-Language Learners
Entering the Teaching Profession
Today鈥檚 theme is on administrator leadership. You can see the list of posts following this excerpt from one of them:
With the coronavirus as a backdrop, a district superintendent weighs the pros and cons of different strategies for reopening schools in the fall.
District schools Superintendent PJ Caposey shares the challenges and questions he is grappling with as he plans for a school year during the pandemic.
Four educators share advice on dealing with student absences. These include trying to find out the real reasons behind the lack of attendance and building positive teacher/student relationships.
Four educators share strategies for responding to absenteeism鈥攚hether from remote learning or from the physical school. They include a reduced emphasis on negative consequences and a renewed focus on relationship-building.
A five-part series on mistakes made by school administrators is wrapped up today with commentaries from Lynell Powell, Stuart Ablon, Alisha Pollastri, Diane Mora, and many comments from readers.
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Julie Hasson, Ryan Huels, David Bosso, Cindy Terebush, and Kelly Wickham Hurst contribute their thoughts on administrators and the mistakes they make.
Jen Schwanke, Jenny Grant Rankin, Harvey Alvy, Michael Haggen, James Erekson, and Michael D. Toth write about their experiences working as, or with, school administrators.
PJ Caposey, Sarah Said, Amy Fast, Andrew Miller, Anthony Kim, and Edward Cosentino share their observations on mistakes administrators make and how to avoid them.
Commentaries from Anne Vilen, Marcy Webb, Jason Kotch, Roxanna Elden, Baruti Kafele, and Manuel Rustin 鈥渒ick off鈥� this five-part series on administrators鈥� mistakes.
Scott Ratchford, Michael Lubelfeld, Jody Spiro, Jonas Chartock, and Victoria L. Bernhardt comment on the best roles central offices should play in providing school support.
Adeyemi Stembridge, Douglas Reeves, Amber Teamann, PJ Caposey, Rachael George, Patrick Darfler-Sweeney, and Sherry Lanza share their ideas on how school district central offices can best help schools.
Greg Giglio, Jane Kise, David Bateman, Jenifer Cline, Tom Hoerr, and Jennifer Abrams contribute their suggestions for dealing with staff conflict.
San茅e Bell, Ed.D., Todd Franklin, Jenny Edwards, Julie P. Combs, Stacey Edmonson, Sandy Harris, and Amber Teamann discuss how to handle workplace conflict at schools.
Jen Schwanke, William Sterrett, Amy Dujon, Raymond Smith, Pete Hall, Sandi Novak, Bonnie Houck, Ed. D., and Daniel Rechtschaffen share their ideas on how principals should do their jobs.
Mike Janatovich, Ann Mausbach, Kim Morrison, Otis Kriegel, Jonathan Eckert, David Geurin, and Robert Cunard contribute their thoughts on how principals should spend their time.
PJ Caposey, Stephanie Brant, Megan Allen, San茅e Bell, and Rachael George share their ideas about how principals should spend their time.
Michael Haggen, Donna Wilson, Marcus Conyers, Tom Hoerr, David Bateman, Jenifer Cline, and Jennifer Abrams provide commentaries on the challenges facing principals.
San茅e Bell, Jen Schwanke, Mike Janatovich, Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Cynthia L. Uline, and Lynne G. Perez share their ideas on challenges facing principals and how best to respond to them.
PJ Caposey, Amber Teamann, Matt Renwick, Paul Barnwell, and Mitch Barnes share their ideas on the roles of administrators in making curriculum innovations.
San茅e Bell, Mark Estrada, Sally J. Zepeda, Adeyemi Stembridge, Kenneth Baum, David Krulwich, and Daniel Venables contribute their suggestions about how administrators can support curriculum innovations.
Myron Dueck, PJ Caposey, Pete Hall, and Christina Post contribute their commentaries on the topic of qualities potential principals should develop and maintain.
Catherine Beck, Mark Estrada, Bill Sterrett, and Ben Fenton share their suggestions about the qualities aspiring principals should cultivate within themselves.
In this post, Troy Hicks, Kristina J. Doubet, David Sherrin, Kirke Olson, and Barbara Blackburn share their thoughts on how principals can support teachers, specifically in the social sciences. I鈥檝e also included comments from many readers.
In this post, Shawn Blankenship, Pete Hall, Jennifer Hindman, Steven Anderson, and Aubrie Rojee share their suggestions on how principals can mentor teachers.
This piece features commentaries from Mark Estrada, Diana Laufenberg, Bryan Harris, Ben Spielberg, Sarah Cooper, and William & P茅rsida Himmele on how principals can best support teachers.
Justin Baeder and Kelly Young (who I consider my mentor in education) contribute their answers here. I include comments from readers, too.
This post shares guest responses from three educators鈥擜nne Reeves, Justin Tarte, and PJ Caposey.
This column shares responses from Maurice J. Elias and Elise Foster, plus comments from readers.
This post includes commentaries by Scott McLeod, Sally Zepeda, and Tony Frontier.
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Scott McLeod, Kelly Young, John Gabriel, and Paul Farmer all offer their advice here.
Justin Baeder, Allan R. Bonilla, and Josh Stumpenhorst share their reflections.
Lyn Hilt, Joe Mazza, and Cheryl James-Ward contribute to this post.
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This is Part One in a series responding to the question: 鈥淗ow can teachers best relate to superintendents鈥攁nd vice versa?鈥�
This post provides responses from a teacher鈥檚 perspective, with contributions from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Dean Vogel, president of the California Teachers Association; and Barnett Berry of the Center for Teaching Quality.
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This is Part Two, which provides responses from a superintendent鈥檚 perspective, with contributions from three superintendents (along with comments from readers): Joshua Starr, Pamela Moran, and John Kuhn.
