Leadership and My Journey to Principalship

Third Day in First Grade Talk about a technology FAIL! Today I tried to get 18 6 year olds logged into their Chromebook. I would have preferred herding cats! I started by getting them so excited to log into Prodigy Math, one of my favorite math games for students. I showed them their log-in information (printed on a sticker on the inside of their chromebook) and set up a couple of students at a time. I had the rest of my class coloring in their math sheet, and they seemed to be having fun with that. I got my first two students to my back table and asked them how to unplug their Chromebook from the charging cart and sat them down to have them log-in. Seemed easy enough. Then, I noticed that the one student started typing away letters when he needed to type in the 8-digit student number. The other student couldn't find the number zero, so there were eight letter "O"s in his student number section. I slowly helped them type in their username and password and started to get t...

 First Day of School Here we are, day 4 of preservice for the week, and my classroom is nowhere near done. I have logged into my first graduate class of my Leadership MS degree. Our first class is a great option. It is a technology class for leaders. Who would have thought that leaders are on the cutting edge of technology apps! So this first blog is nothing more than me experimenting with my first blog. I will be linking my twitter account as well. This will be interesting because I don't use twitter either.  So I am 2 hours into my graduate degree and I have learned two NEW things! How to set up my own Blog and my own Twitter. I hope that my blog is a true reflection of my experiences, both positive and negative. I hope that I can share new articles, new podcasts and new technology that will benefit others that may be on the same path in leadership, or it may benefit those who are curious about the advancements in school leadership.  I will be posting throughout my expe...