In my last post, I started reflecting on the recent TASSP Assistant Principal's Workshop. This is a continuation of that post.
As I mentioned last time, one of my major goals is to improve in the area of instructional leadership. Sean Cain and John Crain's workshops provided the impetus to get that improvement started. I was also able to learn how to use systems to help manage a school system. BJ Paris (www.bjparis.com) gave some great ideas about developing staff development using Google Docs, responding to bullying incidents, school and community communication, and incident command. Her five step processes for each were invaluable and easily adapted to a new school setting.
Carrie Jackson of Timberview Middle School in Keller ISD taught attendees the value of using social media. Although I don't often use Twitter, I plan on beginning now. Her weekly talks using Twitter and Storify were a great idea for communicating with parents and building community. She also presented some ideas for how to start becoming more adept at social media including developing norms for school related media to maintain safety, scheduling time to blog and using walk-throughs as opporunities to record and the great things happening at the school, and bringing others along. On this last point, her ideas included never ever mandating SM use, recognizing risk taking (even when it doesn't always work out), modeling expectations, pointing out the benefits, making it advantageous, and using SM in addition to the standard lines of communication.
As a future administrator, I hope to be able to use what I learned at this workshop to positively affect schools and bring learning to new levels. Honestly, the more I learn, the more I want to get started applying it to my practice.
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