Recently I discovered Google calendars. I think this tool is going to come in very handy for me professionally and personally. I have customized and set Google as my homepage, I have a google email account, and I use Google Reader as my RSS tool. It is nice to have one stop shopping!I just finished ... Read More about Google Tools

This is my 3rd year as elementary principal in my current building. For the past two years I have "required" my teachers to spend one afternoon, after school, and ride a school bus. Well today was the day! We have early-out Mondays and the students are dismissed 30 min. early so teachers have ... Read More about Above and Beyond?

Is it really May? Do you say this every year? Yes!!! Where did this year go?I think this year was an especially trying time for my community, school, teachers and students. In January we missed 6 days of school due to a devastating ice storm. Families were without "power" for days and some people ... Read More about Where did the year go?

Now that I have my life back in order, thanks to GTD, I have been feverishly reading blogs. I guess I forgot to keep up with my own. I just get so intrigued with others. I want to comment on everyone but then I get headed off in another direction with a link in someone's blog! Vicious, but fun ... Read More about Principal Support Systems – BLOGGING!!!

If it were not for my iPod I can't imagine how I would keep up with all these new and great things I am finding on Web 2.0! I recently replied to a blog entry on LeaderTalk about iPods and it got me to thinking of all the ways I have been using mine lately.Originally I purchased my iPod because I ... Read More about The iPod Factor

It has almost been a week since I started reading the book Getting Things Done and reading about GTD on lots of blogs. What a difference a week makes! Just purchasing the labeler alone has saved my life. If all I do is get all my folders, piles, and papers labeled my life will be simply glorious. ... Read More about GTD Update