On January 14, 2013, my school held its first “Flipped Faculty Meeting” (FFM). Just as the “flipped classroom” model seeks to relegate rote content delivery to non-class time and make more efficient use of face-to-face (F2F) time in class, the idea of the flipped faculty meeting – at least…
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Mind Over Mudder
Much is made in my ed leadership doctoral program of goals: organizational goal-setting, alignment with vision/mission, monitoring progress, etc. Though I hadn’t originally intended to blog about this recent life event*, when I think about it in terms of goal-setting, it seems to parallel much of what my coursework has focused…
My Road to School Psychology
I am told that being a school psychologist with a teaching background is an unusual thing. It’s true, I don’t know many other school psychs who were previously teachers, but I don’t know how common or uncommon that is. For a recent graduate school assignment, we had to write a…
Habits of Mind: Empathy
This post is part of a series on sixteen “Habits of Mind” put forth by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick as being “necessary for success in school, work, and life” (Costa & Kallick, 2010, p. 212). Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand others! Devoting mental energy to another person’s…
The End of Isolation
In September, I was very proud to have my first contribution to a peer-reviewed journal published. When a friend asked if I had publicized this on my blog, I paused, then realized that in the hubbub of the start of school, I had completely forgotten. So anyway, here goes: in…