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I got an offer to be the Assistant Principal at a charter school, and I took it. I’m taking my first formal steps into school leadership. It only took me about a half-second to consider the offer. The only reason that I would have stayed at my current school is because of the new principal. [...]

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30 seconds in a staff meeting have been haunting me for about two months now. It came up in conversation that we would like our teachers to call students more often. To make that happen they would need to make phone calls from home, as the teachers will be based there most of the time [...]

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The school district that I work for uses what has to be the most inefficient, clunky email system used by any major operation, it’s called First Class. As you ponder this point, I used Fallon for a year in college. Even that was a better system. At the risk of this becoming a rant, everyone [...]

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I have a few Google Alerts set up. It’s a nice tool. It’s not as easy as NetVibes, but it sends me to things I would have never found on my own. One of the alerts that I have set up is for “Odyssey Charter Schools”. About 90% of the time I get an alert [...]

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There’s three things that parents of online students want to know: What’s my kids grade? Which assignments does my kid need to do? When do you want these assignments turned in by? In an ongoing effort to meet these needs both of the online schools I work for are changing their Learning Management Systems. At [...]

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