Last year I agreed to be the Vice President of SWMAESP. (Southwest Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals) My good friend Mike Dawson was going to be the President but he got an Asst. Supt. job and completely abandoned me! Of course I am kidding. I am very happy for Mike and he has ... Read More about SWMAESP Excecutive Meeting Documents

In order to get to know each other better we did a personality trait activity at our back-to-school staff meeting. Of course this is not a research based tried and tested activity but it was fun to see where everyone fell according to their self-assessments. We laughed a lot! North: Acting - ... Read More about Personality Trait Activity with Staff – FUN!

Here are some of our agendas and notes from the first days of school meetings: We are going through Adaptive Schools Training and brought back some information from our summer training. The Working Agreements are from last year and we are going to tweak these. When our Leadership Team met we ... Read More about Begin Year & Faculty Meeting Anchor Charts

The Practical Principals podcast is a podcast that gives school principals practical survival tips. If you are new to reading my blog, Scott and I started podcasting together in 2007. Our next show will be #30. You can follow Scott on twitter here and his blog is here. Scott is a MS principal in ... Read More about The Practicial Principals Are Back!