A collaboration between educators and a national software-and-services company-one that emphasizes the relationship between school attendance and lifelong achievement-is helping turn a Sacramento school district into a real-time lab for getting parents, principals and students on the same bluebook page. Twin Rivers Unified School District-whose name was often preceded in the media with the word […]
At the core of powerful coaching relationships is the most important quality of effective performance and interactions: High emotional intelligence quotient, or EQ. To increase one's EQ, coaching needs to focus on four domains: self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. As leaders, we seldom get the training we really need on how to coach […]
Navigating turbulent waters of uncertain budgets, district leaders have a great challenge: Answer the growing push for accountability and heightened community expectations in 2015. "The overall trend is that more and more administrators must become professional problem solvers," says David Miceli, superintendent of New Providence School District in New Jersey. "We are going to be […]
