Cushman:How decisions are made is the most important thing. Even while they are still in the rising generation, high school students need practice in exercising power in their own school community. A principal
Any principal could do the same. Create a bulletin board outside your office. Rotate the pictures on a monthly basis so the bulletin board always appears "new." And then create a scrapbook of the pictures to keep in your office for kids and visitors to see again and again. That's what...
Thanks for the Lietaer clip, that’s fantastic sharing material! I disagree with you about Steve’s motives. For many years he has been heavily focussed on developing an economic modelling system (Minsky) that accurately represents what really happens in an economy (ie, banks, debt, money cr...
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Students might respond by drawingorwriting. Post some of the students' responses. Get the whole school involved and you'll have a yearlong bulletin board. As you replace the pictures and writing each month, put the ones you take down into a scrapbook that you can leave out to entertain ...
All of the songs can be found on iTunes. Some of them have lyrics that are inappropriate for school, so I make a cassette tape of a 10- to 20-second soundbite that I will use on the announcements. Often, I record the funny or catchy phrase several times back to back on the tape...
"Be sure to add a P.S. that says 'Please remind your parents of these important dates,' and list events such as Back-to-School Night and the date class pictures will be taken." But, Most of All . . . Probably the most important thing for a new principal -- oranyprincipal -- to...