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The School House 302 Leadership Blog
Our primary blogging category is school leadership, and each month we dive into the specifics of one topic under the umbrella of leading better and growing faster. Our hope is to bridge business managment tools with educational leadership so that you can elevate your practice as a school or district leader.
We are always looking to create content that helps deliver on our goal, which is to inspire better school leadership for a brighter tomorrow for all children. If you have specific challenges that we can help to tackle with our blog or through a guest on our podcast, drop us a note on our contact page.
4 Excellence Hacks That Every Educator Needs to Know
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell Excellence occurs primarily in two fashions: 1. Efficiencies--the things we get faster at doing so that our capacity is greater, and 2. Effectiveness--the things that we do that have an...
Educators Strike Back: How Lessons Learned During Covid-19 will Change Education — #SH302
Covid-19 Strikes First Early in March, 2020, the conversation around the Novel Coronavirus started to gain momentum as it spread, but concerns remain limited. Then, like a wave crashing without warning, COVID-19 hijacked our communities and the educational system...
The 7 Ways that School Leaders Can Build Trust
Trust is the glue of life…the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ~ Stephen Covey Trust is a Social Contract in Schools Trust is a multi-faceted, complex phenomenon that has the ability to strengthen schools when it is high and cripple them when...
Bridging the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want To Be — #SH302
Ask me to play, I’ll play, ask me to shoot, I’ll shoot. Ask me to pass, I’ll pass, Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate, anything. But it’s not just what you ask of me. It’s what I ask of myself. ~ LeBron James Success, achievement, and...
Leading Change
When we think of the most effective leaders of all time, we typically remember the people who had the greatest impact on culture. These are the people who have created or endured the most intense changes to life as we know it, whether that be in our organizations,...
A School Leader’s Guide to Building A Winning Team
A Winning Team Creating and sustaining a winning team of talented people is maybe the single most important task of a leader. But a winning team is not just about putting together a group of high performers. In fact, the problem is twofold: 1. Assembling a team of...
Leading with H.O.P.E.
A Gallup survey confirms that the four most universal needs that people require from their leaders are trust, compassion, stability, and...hope. When we lack hope and we feel dissatisfied with our current state, it’s the leaders of the world who step up to provide...
The Present Leader: Showing Up When It Matters Most
3 Pillars of a Present Leader Approximately 95,000 years ago, humans developed the distinct ability to think abstractly about our world. Our systems for communication evolved into the language, reasoning, mathematics, science, and other forms of meaning-making that...
Flex Your Mental-Strength-Muscles Using These 3 Leadership Tactics
“I tried to do so many things to fit in. But when you look in the mirror, that’s the one person you can’t lie to.” – David Goggins April 13, 2013 at 2:49PM, two bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. The Boston Marathon, the...
Five Important Aspects of Social Distancing and Staying Sane for Leaders — #SH302
Special COVID-19 Post "You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." ~ Bob Marley These are incredibly challenging times, filled with uncertainty. As COVID-19 continues to spread, the world continues to respond. We...