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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.
Self-Improvement: Franklin’s Way — #SH302
More Than A Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is one of our favorite leaders from history. Not only is he a Founding Father, but he straddled the universe of professional and amateur interests, from political philosopher to postmaster, from scientist to diplomat,...
Being a Great Teammate — #SH302
Super Bowl Sunday This Sunday, approximately 100 million people will sit in front of their television to watch the Kansas City Chiefs battle the San Francisco 49ers for Super Bowl LIV. Whether you watch the game because you love the gridiron competition or you...
Turning Goals into Results for Greater Success — #SH302
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. ~ Earl Nightingale Conquering Your Demons The valiant knight stood over the bones of his fallen enemies, having collected them all for the keeping. Seven in total, he slain over the last ten months. He...
Feedback: Growing Your Teacher Leaders Using a Leadership Development Continuum Model
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. ~ Daniel Kahneman Dave is a Teacher Leader The whole meeting lasted only seventeen minutes, but it felt like three rounds in a cage fight. No, I wasn’t bloody or...
#SH302: Making Better Decisions w/ CARE
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~ Peter Drucker Decision-making is a common and routine aspect of life. Wansink and Sobal, of Cornell University, estimate that we make over 200 decisions every 24 hours solely on what...
#SH302: Low Level Leadership—Three Surefire Ways to Crush Creativity
Sarah Jenkins was 17 minutes into teaching her lesson when Mr. Simmons, her supervisor, took a seat in the back of the room. Molly, an eager and energetic 7th grader, was reading a short passage: “My parents told me to stay away from Betty, but they had not told me...
#SH302: Low Level Leadership–Three Surefire Ways to Disengage Your People
Twenty minutes went by before Jan even realized that she was staring blankly at her computer screen. She thought to herself that it wasn’t always like this. In fact, there was a time when she was excited to come to work. But things changed. A few of her colleagues...
#SH302 — The Three Cs of Motivation: Clarity, Consciousness, and Commitment
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. ~ St. Jerome Knowing ourselves and what it means to give our “good, better, best” for any given task is not easy. This understanding requires a deep level of self-awareness,...
#SH302: Seeing Results in Action–3 Practices for Any Organization
Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us, unplayed. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Businesses and educational institutions alike are built on the idea that what matters is performance and results. Granted, they may differ in the sense that one may focus...
#SH302: 4 Key Strategies to becoming a Courageous Leader
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~ Earl Nightingale Everyone has faced a moment where they’ve had to demonstrate courage--doing something unpopular, pushing forward through adversity, or confronting a negative...