News: Increasing Staff Productivity

Keeping Teams Positive, Perceptive, and Productive: Five Leadership Practices That Build Sustainable, High-Performing Educational Teams

This Blog explores a fundamental problem that both NASA (on its missions to Mars) and school leaders (relative to committees and teams that work together for many years) must solve: Why the initial en...

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Beyond Overwhelmed: How AI Can Empower Administratively-Taxed School Leaders

This Blog recognizes that today’s district and school administrative leaders are overwhelmed with compliance reporting, budget oversight, community outreach, policy preparations, and other administrat...

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Evaluating the Essential Characteristics of Staff Cohesion and Collaboration: Assessing This Summer What You Want to See This Fall (Part IV)

The Blog discusses the seven characteristics (the “7 C’s”) of staff cohesion and collaboration: Communication, Caring, Commitment, Collaboration, Consultation, Celebration, and Consistency. The resear...

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Preparing for Excellence This Coming School Year: Summer Planning to Strategically Transform Classroom Instruction (Part I)

Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to drive school improvement during the coming new school year. Focusing on improving classroom instruction, the Blog outlines seven research...

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Students’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss

This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...

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Education’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation

This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...

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