Years ago I developed a little scheme for helping people to deal with what I called, reactive emotions that usually got them nowhere, except mired in their own misery and instead offered them another option.  Imagine someone making a snide remark or remember the last time someone said something ...

“Caught not taught” said Warren Bennis, in a 2008 interview on Leadership Development. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHaHquIW0g  He makes a valid point that I have used often in talking with school leaders and others about the diffusion (infusion) of spirit.  A leader, merely by his or her presence, without saying a word ...

With the beginning of the school year comes the inevitable flurry of back-to-school meetings. Administrative team meetings and retreats, opening faculty meetings, department meetings, board meetings, staff meetings, and grade-level meetings will all be scheduled in the planning week before the students arrive. Over the course of the school ...