Yearly Archives: 2014

Numbers Don’t Lie (but do they tell the truth?)

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ~Daniel Libeskind Americans love numbers and statistics.

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Feedback is not Fatal

Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ~Ken Blanchard This year I had the opportunity to have a 360-Degree evaluation completed to help me better understand how I (and my team) can make improvements to the way I lead our schools.

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Wise Advice

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ~Anne Frank Those of you that know me know that I am fond of

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55:45, the Magic Ratio

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ~Michael Jordan As we think back on our own school experiences, I am sure our thoughts wander to a favorite activity or being a member of a team.  Maybe you were the star

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Bullying Prevention at 5-8

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~Benjamin Disraeli Our schools are wonderful places for kids to learn and grow.  We work hard to implement a curriculum that is both challenging and engaging and provide a variety of extracurricular activities

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Technology Boot Camp Takeaways

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~Carl Rogers Today over 500 parents and thirty teachers from across the township came together to learn and grow.  Today we hosted our

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Crack Goes the Pencil 📝

Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. ~Artur Rubenstein The sound of the pencil cracking in half is deafening.  All she has to do complete 10 problems on combining fractions.  How did we get

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The Abstraction of Numbers

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ~Plato We live in a data-driven world.  The watch on your wrist not only tells you the time, but can track your food intake, calories burned, steps taken during

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I ❤ The Red Pen

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ~E. L. Doctorow Learning is seldom linear and is often messy.  It is in this “messiness” that we make mistakes and learn from them.  In the learning,

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Free Range Kids

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ~Fred Rogers Many of us remember hearing our mother yell, “Be home

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