The values you hold determine how you evaluate action. Successful people are people who have accurately and consistently implemented their values. Leaders are those who have helped a others implement them. Normally this is a group who implement them together. We call this a successful company, congregation, school, or non-profit. Many people cite a long…
Jack Welch was the CEO of GE. Under his leadership, GE became the most valuable company in the world, measured in market capitalization. Warren Buffet, perhaps the most famous investor of all times, said that other than this book by Jack Welch, no other management book will ever be needed! That got my attention! The…
Warren Bennis On Becomng a Leader Addison-Wesley 1989 A classic. With experience on both the academic and practical side, Bennis covers the how of becoming a leader. The key to full self-expression is understanding oneself and the world and the key to understanding is learning – from one’s own life experience. It is more important…
1. Post evacuation procedures. Be able to leave in 5 minutes, with everything you need and for sure not leaving any child behind. Test this thoroughly. 2. Have a plan for sheltering in place and evacuating and test them. 3. Be sure parents know your plan. 4. Be sure that all the children can tell…
“The meaning of the word “character” changes. It is used less to describe traits like selflessness, generosity, self-sacrifice, and other quality that sometimes make worldly success less likely. It is instead used to describe traits like self-control, grit resilience, and tenacity, quality that make worldly success more likely. ” David Brooks, The Road to Character…
Here is a list, with pictures, of the most common rashes children have. Very valuable. http://www.todaysparent.com/kids/kids-health/rashes-on-children/?gallery_page=12#gallery_top Feel so grateful that I have experienced so few with my children. Right now, it is time to do everything we can for prevention. Next, I will come up with some help with that. For now, maybe this ought…
Here is a thought from another leadership consultant whose blog I follow. All to often, we are so focused on the latest trend in childcare, we can not keep up with trends in management, let alone let our mind create. But still, we are managers and leaders, and more importantly so because we lead teachers…
Thanks to everyone who made the “Christian Directors’ Group-Taylor” a great success. Here is the poll I promised. Please participate in polling only if you are a director, assistant director, or owner of a Christian or Jewish school (so we match the research.) (Anyone is free to comment below this post on the topic, however.)…
“Students in the lowest SES quartile who attended a private school in 8th grade were nearly four times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than students from the same quartile who attended a public school.” — Council for American Private Education This is a significant statement. Students in private school outperform public school —…
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/09/common_standards_will_it_chang.html Please let me know what you think of this. Did you hear President Obama say in his State of the Union address that we should work on early childhood education? Don’t you imagine Hillary Clinton will have early childhood on her agenda if she is president. What do you think?