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)….
Arts Advisory Council: Year in Review & Looking Ahead
In my last post, I described the origins of my district’s Arts Advisory Council. This post describes how the first year of implementation went and how things may change in the year to come. The Past Year We planned to meet a total of 5 times this past year; we actually…
Arts Advisory Council: Origins
In my last post, I spoke briefly about the Arts Advisory Council, a new initiative in my district aimed at K-12 program development in the arts. I’ve alluded to it in several posts over the last year, but haven’t sat down to put metaphorical pen to paper until now. This…
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…