Author Archives: Doctor B

Monday Minute – March 23, 2020 Good evening. I hope this post finds you safe and healthy. As you are aware, schools across the country are being closed for varying amounts of time in order to help curb the spread of Covid-19 or the coronavirus. Here in South Carolina, we are currently closed until MarchContinue reading “Leading from my Laptop”

Monday Minute for March 9, 2020 As the end of the third quarter of this school year rapidly approaches, I wanted to share something that I do on a regular basis, and that is reflect on my day. To be honest, sometimes it ends up being a reflection on the week. My reflections are writtenContinue reading “Reflect”

Monday Minute – 3/2/2020 This week many schools are celebrating Read Across America! It’s a special time that some schools use to share the works of Dr. Seuss, which is how the school I am principal of and the local elementary school plan to celebrate. We have a theme for each day based on aContinue reading “Read Across America Week”

Monday Minute #8 Last week I shared a bit about how I stay organized focusing mainly on the real world. As a school leader, I also have to stay organized in the electronic world. There are three main ways that I do this, Google, my RocketBook, and an external hard drive. Let’s start with Google,Continue reading “E-Organization”

As a building leader, I firmly believe that I must keep learning and growing, not only as a leader, but as an educator. Several ways that I keep growing professionally include reading, taking courses, attending conferences, and being involved with social media. All of these provide me with different ways to grow and learn, whichContinue reading “Keep Learning”

Monday Minute 2/17/2020 Staying organized is critical in a leadership role. Each leader has his or her organizational methods. We each must find and use what works for us. For me, I prefer a self-created paper calendar along with my Google calendar. Further on my paper calendar, items are color coded and there are someContinue reading “Stay Organized”

As a principal, my goal is to be in classrooms daily to observe teaching and learning. Notice I said goal, because some days things just don’t work out that way. I consider classroom observations as a way to provide job embedded professional development for teachers. Observations are frequently required for evaluation purposes but I’m speakingContinue reading “Observations as PD”

Showing appreciation takes many forms and goes a long way. The easiest and simplest is to just say thank you, along with the specifics of what you are grateful for the person doing. Just like we praise students for doing certain things, do the same for staff. Things like thank you for arriving to relatedContinue reading “Show Appreciation”

For many educators, job embedded professional development is just part of your day or at least your week. There are a myriad of ways to carry out job embedded PD, but I will focus on one here. When researching and writing my dissertation, I found that teachers were more apt to implement professional development ifContinue reading “Job Embedded PD”