Growing up, I loved to read Dr. Seuss books. The rhymes held my attention from the beginning to the end. I never thought about the deeper meaning of his writings until I became an administrator. These deeper meanings have given me a renewed focus on what my teachers and I do on a daily basis. I feel this link can give all administrators a rejuvinated approach to what they do on a daily basis. This is definitely needed on more days than others!
Sharing this site with co-workers and colleagues could certainly be an extra push to help get us through these next few weeks leading up to spring break.
As a beginning or even veteran school administrator, the responsibilities required of you seem daunting, even impossible at times. After reading the "6 Leadership Lessons from Dr. Seuss" by Brian Nichols, I felt it fitting to share this post as Dr. Seuss would have celebrated his 108th birthday just 3 days ago. I also felt these should also be shared with you to help remind you of your self-worth and importance.
It is easy to loose sight of these things as we become inundated in our daily routines as school leaders. These lessons help to remind us of the importance of our role as leaders of the school and as leaders of our students.
http://theevolutionofeducation.blogspot.com/2012/03/6-leadership-lessons-from-dr-seuss.html?spref=tw
This blog was discovered through reading tweets posted by Erin Paynter.
Attached you will find a link to my Twitter list.
https://twitter.com/#!/stevisims/successful-administrators
This list could be beneficial to all novice as well as veteran administrators seeking new ideas in providing successful leadership and school improvement.
Creation of this list taught me that there are several innovative ways of incorporating technology in with school leadership and moral boosters.
Criterion for my list included using tweets that provided many examples of technology in with leadership as well as tweets that mirrored my educational philosophy.
Some of my favorite resources I found throughout my Twitter search were those of Brian Nichols' website and Twitter list sharing the importance of what we do on a daily basis, tweets from Mentoring Minds related to improving school culture, and Peter DeWitt's common sense strategies shared.
I anticipate other administrators being able to use my blog by accessing some of the common sense strategies gleaned from Twitter. I also hope other school leaders are able to improve their personal and professional moral through some of the links shared on my list.
Thank you for this post, Stevi. I enjoyed the link to Brian Nichols' blog and the creativity with which he relates Dr. Seuss to leadership lessons. I think one of the hardest things NOT to do is become inundated in daily routines. If I am not careful, I can find myself completely engaged in routine management tasks and never moving along to things that truly matter--ways to lead the school to greater possibilities. I ran across Brian Nichols as I was creating my Twitter list. I didn't know he had a blog as well.
ReplyDeleteYes, check out his blog. It has some great posts on it that are very relevant to us as administrators!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the lessons from Dr. Seuss. I had never thought of leadership along those lines but as simple as the points are they make perfect sense. From “caring” enough to make changes because nothing will get better without leadership to a leader has to “match” actions with words. Those are important for all leaders to remember. This applies to us as building administrators because others follow our actions and words.
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