Creating Success in the Classroom
What is success in the classroom? Is it a classroom where students are sitting up straight in their desks, reciting, repeating, restating, regurgitating what the teacher has said? Maybe. Is it a...
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Creating Hyperlinks in MSOffice – it’s easy
Creating Hyperlinks —in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. On several occasions, you will need to create a document, spreadsheet, slide presentation, or even blog post where a hyperlink is needed to take...
View ArticleI’ve made the jump — to administration
Well, I went and did it. I enrolled in and was accepted into the CEL program at Cleveland State University. It is the “Inspired Leaders Principal Licensure” program. The program lasts 16 months and...
View ArticleVisionary Leadership
The 2nd class that I am enrolled in to obtain Principal Licensure is entitled Visionary Leadership. Our text: “The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations”...
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Connector, Maven, or Salesman?
When I first picked up “The Tipping Point” by Malcom Gladwell, I thought of several comedic sketches: 1. The last straw on a camel’s back, 2. Cow tipping (favorite past time in Texas) and 3....
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The Educational Implications of the Tipping Point
Click the Play button to hear the authorhttp://jpetras.edublogs.org/files/2013/12/TheEducationalImplicationsoftheTippingPoint2-295zxom.mp3 As a teacher, I think anyone in the education field should...
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BAM Radio Network “Guest Educator”
Way back in November of 2013 and then in April of 2014, I was asked to be a ‘guest’ on the BAM Radio Network discussing topics in Education and featured on both the #Edchat Radio Channel and...
View ArticleSocial Media Survey and Analysis
One way an administrator can determine a school’s climate is by the use of surveys. In Kowalski (2007) a school’s “culture is the least visible element of climate and thus the element most difficult...
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There was an error accessing PowerPoint! How to fix this error.
Have you ever been met with this error when downloading a PowerPoint from the internet, or trying to open a PowerPoint from an email or other source? Well here is how you fix...
View ArticleAbsence makes the heart grow fonder?
For the past few months, well several months, I have not posted anything to my blog for lack of time. You see, I have been searching for a new job. I left my longtime employment in June 2015 with high...
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