A little more on Escaping the School Leader’s Dunk Tank this month: So ‘self-help’ really isn’t my preferred reading genre, but in addition to Dunk Tank, I highly recommend 10% Happier, by Dan Harris (yes, that Dan Harris). Much of what Harris ultimately uncovers (spoiler alert) is that our own…
Category: Reflection
Required Reading
As someone who has been involved in a variety of social networks over the last decade, I know that my participation in each tends to ebb and flow, influenced by any number of factors both internal and external. One service I’ve been making better use of recently is Goodreads, which…
#SAVMP 2016-2017
Moving ever onward out of my comfort zone in the name of professional growth, I signed up to participate in SAVMP for the 2016-2017 school year. SAVMP is the School Administrator Virtual Mentoring Program, and I volunteered to serve as a mentor to aspiring and novice administrators. I know I’m…
ICYMI: My Faves 2014-2016
I tag each post on this blog with some categorical classification, and one I started using a few years ago is Damian’s Favorites – this tag represents what I feel are the best posts on this site (or at least the ones I wish got read more than the others)….
Year 2: Highlights & Lessons Learned
This week brings my second year in administration to an end. I started 2015-2016 off remarking how different the start of Year 2 felt from the start of Year 1, and as the end of Year 2 approaches, I feel like the year is slowly and (more or less) gently coasting to…