When my wife and kids tell me they love me. Lewis Howes

You never know who is watching you. Behave accordingly.

Your team values are not found on the poster hanging in the office lunch room.

They're found in the behaviors you choose to tolerate and celebrate.

#Leadership

Principals can’t mandate collaboration. The goal then, is to create the conditions where teachers see the value… and have the time.

When we are intentional about the example we set, we accelerate the influence of our modeling. If a team leader ignores a demeaning remark from a team member, it cements the behavior as acceptable. We must walk the walk before people will listen to our talk. #TrustAndInspire

Read that again. ⬇️

#multiplyexcellence

Micromanaging a group of professionals is often a sure-fire way to get the least productivity out of your best people.

I have never thought less of someone for admitting that they were wrong, have you?

It’s impossible to be right all the time.

Admitting when we are wrong gives us the freedom and the permission to learn something new, and to disconnect from our egos.

Does your classroom resemble a turnstile or a floodgate?

A turnstile lets one person in at a time. It offers admission, but does not allow access to all as a form of entry into the lesson.

A floodgate, by nature, has multiple pathways and allows multiple entry points. #edchat

Please don’t complain about the things you tolerate. You get what you accept.

In leadership, we say, 'What gets measured, gets done.'

But more importantly, 'What gets celebrated, gets done.'

Celebrate the behaviors you want to see repeated.

#Leadership

A toxic culture is simply one where the leader tolerates toxic attitudes and behaviors.

As a leader, what you tolerate you encourage.

#Leadership

Leading by assumption is a dangerous game to play. As the saying goes, the shepherd should smell like sheep. #leadership

There is a distinct difference between bending helpful and being the help desk. Being helpful is supporting. The help desk just fixes the problems. If you are always the help desk you get overwhelmed and will eventually miss something big. #leadlap

Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.
Kids in school need recess.

Just don’t be the sage on the stage for 40 straight minutes. Build in opportunities for students to summarize and work with the content that is provided during direct instruction. I do, we do, you do.

🎓 We are wasting the resource of our special education teachers if we limit them mostly to helping students complete work. Their skills can reach so much farther when they are in the role of co-designing instruction. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL

Decide tonight that tomorrow will be a good day and that this week will be a good week.

Whatever happens, good or bad, you control your response, your attitude, your perspective, your effort. You get to make it a good week.

Get your mind right and your actions will follow.

“You begin to be a high-road leader by valuing all people.” - John C. Maxwell

#MaxwellPodcast

Build your people up. Positive reinforcement is a powerful force be quick to point out what people are doing well, not just where they can improve. #SundayThought