Praise is a powerful thing. It has the potential to motivate, guide and support a student’s learning. But it can also derail it. When our praise is focused on outcomes and abilities, it contributes to the development of a Fixed Mindset.

Renee Rehfeldt defined the four strategies I list below to categorize the numerous PD offerings available to staff…

Pay attention to the “Elephants”, or Ineffective Meeting Attributes and Behaviours, that team members will overlook at the start of the year.

Most parents never expected they’d be in grade school again, and yet, here we are: the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the order of colors in a rainbow…

Like many educators, my pivot to remote instruction has been fraught with frustration, continually challenging my capacity to learn and adapt.

Mac Bogert and I have a conversation about going Back to Different. The reopening of schools will present the best opportunity for change in decades.

To begin building the foundation for collaborative, transformative and sustainable change in schools, senior leaders need to…

Schools that empower their middle leaders to take ownership of their teams will demonstrate these 6 characteristics…

Every school year ends with me presenting to schools with how they need to prepare their next crop of leaders.

These are three vital attributes for achieving transformational change and when people with these attributes are put together there will be a multiplier effect of new ideas that improving practice.

In an ideal situation, most school leaders envision teacher-led teams working in a collaborative state.

Teacher leaders, coordinators, department heads and vice-principals are the heart of the school.

I recently facilitated a roundtable discussion that was convened due to the growing interest of senior leaders in schools related to professionally developing their middle leaders.

A concept I love introducing to school boards and senior leadership teams is BHAGs, Big Hairy Audacious Goals.

How do you define collaboration? Does the outcome of your collaborative work improve instructional and operational effectiveness?

I felt like Jean Luc Picard (Star Trek) after completing a recent program with a Beijing public primary school.

Several Department Heads and Teacher Leaders have already had the opportunity to meet their team members.

It’s March and you have, or just are, finishing your recruitment for next year.