This weekend is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada. It’s a time to sit back and be thankful for all that we have living in one of the greatest countries in the world. Given this, I thought this would be a good time to reflect on what has been going.
Topics: Admin meanderings, principal, shool_administration

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Have you noticed a preoccupation by people to bring down people who are in positions of authority – willing to believe any bit of dirt or gossip. They’ll jump on a mistake, making sure that everyone knows that it has happened. Whether...
Topics: Leadership, Personal Asides, principal

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Summer holidays have officially begun, thank goodness and I’m spending some time figuring out what exactly I might do this summer and what I would like to accomplish in the realm of my own development. My last week of school was less than inspiring.
Topics: blogging, Leadership, learning, Technology & Learning

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Well, I almost made it through the year without making a stupid mistake for which I need to apologize. I won’t go into details because, basically, it wasn’t one of my better moments. Needless to say, it was just something that fell out of my..
Topics: Admin meanderings, Leadership, learning

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As I begin to wind down at my present school, I’m noticing a few things about people that I will definitely need to remember and transfer as I make the leap to a new, bigger building. As I see it, sometimes educators get so caught up with the...
Topics: Admin meanderings, Leadership, learning, Teaching and Learning

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