One of the techniques I’ve found myself thinking a lot about lately is Precise Praise. I think, honestly, it’s easy to underestimate. What could be simpler than telling someone “good job”? We know that critical feedback can be tricky, but we tend to assume that good news is easy to deliver. Over time, though, I’ve come…
Yesterday I posted about Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book ‘Get Better Faster’. Today I’d like to add another suggestion for your school leadership bookshelf: Mary Myatt’s outstanding High Challenge, Low Threat. The book is a series of short but insightful meditations on leadership, built around the theme that a great leader should make his or her teachers…
Get Better Faster, by my colleague at Uncommon Schools Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, hit the shelves last week and now that I’ve had a chance to read it, I want to take a moment to recommend it highly. It’s a book for leaders (at various levels of school organizations) but it focuses on one key task: developing and…
During our team’s most recent weekly video meeting, we watched an outstanding clip of Jamila Davis from Troy Prep Elementary School executing nonverbal interventions with warmth, positivity, and finesse. We were so excited about the clip that we instantly added it to our video lineup for our August workshops. Watching it even made Doug do a…
My daughter played in a tournament with her soccer club this past weekend. The experience was a case study in what happens when coaches don’t understand their responsibility as teachers. Sadly, this is not uncommon and is important for reasons that I will discuss at the end of this post. First the details: My daughter is…