I had the pleasure of visiting Troy Prep, yesterday, Uncommon’s school in the small upstate city of Troy that’s led by principals Lauren Catlett (Middle) and Sam DeLuke (Elementary). I had a series of realizations and inspirations and thought I’d share a few of them here. On Jamila’s Classroom One of my first stops…
A colleague of mine runs a very successful school. Most kids among the poorest in the small city where they operate but she and her teachers get the strongest results. The school doesn’t look on the inside like what the doubters might tell you it does. It s a good example of what Mary Myatt calls…
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…