This Behavioral Guidelines Rubric was created for Holly Avenue’s National Blue Ribbon School application in 1999. It’s a tool that can be used by older students and parents as well as by teachers and other school leaders with students as a self-assessment guide. CLICK HERE: Behavioral Guidelines Rubric The best use I’ve found for this Read More…
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Thoughts on ADHD
Yesterday I had a conversation with a parent who is wondering if her daughter may have ADD/ADHD. The book I suggested that she might want to find is Eric Jensen’s Different Brains – Different Learners. 1n 2006 I attended a 3-Day workshop workshop with Eric during which he decided upon his title for this book. As Read More…
The Tools
The tools I will describe in Growing Leaders have evolved out of a lifetime of experiences, and each one has a story. My hope is that my stories will evoke your stories. For the purposes of this book, this is how I define the word “tool.” TOOL: A generic template, process, procedure, strategy, structure, map, Read More…
On First Drafts
Since I’m not a linear thinker, I’ve had a great deal of trouble deciding where and how to start writing a book. My friend Anne Meek once told me to write “toward an outline.” I wasn’t sure exactly what she meant, so she explained it this way: “By writing ‘toward’ an outline, I mean that Read More…