The Challenge: Connect, Curate and Contribute! I’m very excited to take part in Leadership Day 2014! I feel it is important to consider all types of educational leaders, from classroom to campus level, from campus level to district level, and everyone in between. Our number one goal as educators should always be our students, and finding ways to support, engage, improve and transform the learning experience. Below are three challenges I have have for educational leaders.

Blood sucking vampires lurk in the shadows of your organization. If you don't stop them, they'll drain you.

If you're not pretty or smart don't worry. Intelligence doesn't determine success.

The Discovery Education blog is for all educators to find leadership guidance, innovative teaching ideas, insights to corporate partnerships, and more.

You don't like everyone you work with. Now what?

The only progress you can make in emotionally charged situations is dealing with emotions.

Lousy leaders solve the same problems over and over.

Now, before you Miami Heat folks freak out about the Spurs trouncing the Miami professional basketball team last night, or before the Spurs fans freak out that this post isn’t about them, I&#…

Leadership is not celebrating victory at the end of the battle. …it’s the sleepless nights mourning the lives your decisions cost. It’s not standing on stage in front of thousands of people. …it’s knowing others talk about you behind your back, to achieve their own objectives. It’s not having your name in the history books. …it’s the […]

It’s the boss’s job to make sure they can.

George Couros designs dynamic programs to infuse innovation into teaching and leadership, equipping educators with strategies for immediate impact and

Stop assigning tasks to yourself. Successful leaders leave meetings with fewer tasks, not more.

Mediocrity is the result of peace and harmony. Rather than resolving conflict, invite it. Lousy leaders and weak organizations pursue peace at all costs.

Some "projects" border on busywork. Others involve meaningful inquiry that engages students' minds.

Don’t pat yourself on the back if you’re skilled at saying no and lousy at saying yes. Weak leaders hide behind bureaucracy and love making people beg.

A young leader writes, “How do you recover from bad experiences with leadership in a previous job, and from having trust in leadership demolished as a result?”

To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results.

Long emails get pushed aside or ignored.

“Your boss may not be perfect but they are perfect for you.” Unknown

Multiply waste by the number of people involved.

All great leaders have tough conversations; career success demands them. The more impact you have the tougher the conversations become.

It’s Sunday afternoon. While others are relaxing, Monday weighs on your mind. You’re preparing to meet the problems, opportunities, issues, and challenges

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” ~ Lord Acton Power accompanies leadership. No matter how lofty or humble your title, whether you manage 3 people or 3,000, if... Read More