3-2-1: On finding someone wonderful, emphasizing your strengths, and letting go
3 Ideas From Me
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“Exceptional people are rare. When you find someone wonderful, invest in them.
When you find a great employee, pay them well.
When you find a great friend, prioritize the relationship.
When you find a great spouse, out-love them each day.
Relationships are probably the most important part of life. Take care of the great ones.”
5 ways schools can reduce chronic absenteeism and boost student engagement
Schools have a 77% chance of reducing chronic absenteeism when using effective approaches, such as implementing early warning systems to analyze attendance and sharing attendance data with parents, according to a report released Monday by the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice at the University of Oregon.
Students exposed to any attendance intervention were about 9% less likely to be chronically absent compared to those who attended schools that did not have any attendance interventions, the report said.
Board conflict costs districts their best superintendents
https://districtadministration.com/article/board-conflict-costs-districts-their-best-superintendents/
The 5 Stages of Career Growth — and What It Takes to Reach the Next One
A few months after being promoted to lead a regional marketing team in Central and Eastern Europe, I walked into a meeting where the people around the table had been my peers just weeks earlier. I was now responsible for setting direction, evaluating performance and representing the team to senior leadership.
What Will Life Be Like after the Education Department? Look at What Came Before, Experts Say
In 1977, Karen Hawley Miles’ family left Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Washington, D.C. She was a junior in high school, a particularly rough time to be uprooted from her friends and neighborhood.
Still, she appreciated the reason the Carter administration summoned her father to the nation’s capital. Willis Hawley, a prominent researcher who focused on school integration, was part of a team tasked with creating a new cabinet-level education agency.
The goal was to bring all of the various education programs scattered across multiple departments under one roof.