Simply the Best: District Leader
by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Over the course of my forty-year teaching career, which included twenty-six years as a department chair and ten as Curriculum Coordinator, I worked with a...
View ArticleSuperman and Santa Claus
First, I will give you the bad news boys and girls. Superman and Santa Claus are not coming, at least not to public education any time soon. Now here is the good news. Everyone is talking about the...
View ArticleIt’s National Principals Month! Go to the Rubber Room!
“Districts have to treat principals like they expect them to lead.”—The District Leadership Challenge It’s October and it is National Principal’s Month. Congratulations, fellow principals! However, I’m...
View ArticleThe 20% Solution
20% of eighth graders are on target to graduate from high school 20% of students earn passing scores on AP exams 20% of students are prepared to enter the military 20% of students have the writing...
View ArticleSimply the Best: Assistant Principal
by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Over the course of my forty-year teaching career, which included twenty-six years as a department chair, and ten as Curriculum Coordinator, I worked with a...
View ArticleThe Lead Learner is the Learning Leader
Assistant principals are difference makers. When it comes to getting things done on a day-to-day basis in a middle or high school, assistant principals play a key leadership role. Educators are great...
View ArticleWorking Harder or Working Better
This week I am blogging from the NASSP Conference in San Francisco. "More is easy. Better is hard." This morning I listened to Bill Daggett of ICLE talk about school improvement. Bill said something...
View ArticleTebow: There’s No Faking Leadership
“In a real crisis, like say if an asteroid threatens to strike the planet, I want Tim Tebow as my leader.”—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post I intentionally shy away from sports metaphors primarily...
View ArticleEducational Leadership and Joe Madden: Doing More With Less
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle Joe Madden is a man of contradictions. For several Octobers his name and face were featured prominently in all forms of media and yet he quickly regained...
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Principal’s Time Use and School Effectiveness
Center for Education Policy Analysis - Stanford Author/s: Susanna Loeb, Eileen Horng, Daniel Klasik “Strong instructional leadership is essential for a school to be successful. However, defined...
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