Somebody Needs You With Larry Bell
An award-winning educator and in-demand speaker, Larry Bell's inspirational messages focus on practical ideas for improving test scores and helping at-promise students achieve success. In each Education World column, Larry presents a new tool or strategy that will help your at-promise students achieve.
Always Strive to Be a Better You with Pete Hall
In each monthly column, Pete challenges principals to always strive to be their best. Under Hall's leadership, Anderson Elementary School (Reno, Nevada) has been transformed from a school "in need of improvement" in 2002 to the only Title I school in the state of Nevada to garner a "high achieving" designation in 2004.
Mr. Ivan, The Principal Poet
Ivan Kershner, known to students and colleagues alike as Mr. Ivan, has been writing poetry for more than 40 years. With titles such as "Bringing Elephants to School," "A Bad Report Card," and "The Week Before Spring Break," Mr. Ivan's poems should ring familiar to all educators.
Coaching Teachers To Be Leaders With Evelyn Cortez-Ford
Evelyn Cortez-Ford, the founder of School Leadership Coaching, is committed to helping teachers and school administrators develop their full leadership potential. In this series of articles, she takes principals over some of the most common hurdles they encounter as they coach a team of teacher-leaders.
Pawlas on PR for Principals
George E. Pawlas is author of The Administrator's Guide to School-Community Relations. Each month he shares ideas that will help principals as they create successful school communications plans, enhance family involvement, develop partnerships in the community, and deal with crisis situations.
BRAVO Principals With Sandra Harris
Sandra Harris is author of BRAVO Principals, published by Eye on Education. BRAVO is an acronym for Building Relationships with Actions that Value Others. Each month, Harris shares a "tactical action" intent on building valued relationships with staff and others in the larger school community.
Paul Young’s Young @ Heart
Paul Young’s unique perspective on school leadership make him an eminently qualified cheerleader for the principalship. Young is a former National Principal of the Year, former president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and author of books on the role of the principal and on the mentoring new principals.
