Jul 20, 2014

My wife and I decided that we wanted an adventure a few months ago, and so we started looking around for principal positions that would be new and different for us. 

We found one! 

Jul 13, 2014

This second interview with Bob Sonju is really great. You will enjoy every minute of it! We talk about the following:

• How to deal with cynical stakeholders.
• Why people need to be ready to change to make things better.
• How to make a good school even better.
• Why you wake up with panic attacks in the middle of the...

Jul 6, 2014

Bob Sonju is the Director of K–12 Learning in Washington School District in Southern Utah.

In this first part of the interview, we discuss the following:

• A little about Bob’s history and what he learned to help him become prepared for being a transformative principal.
• Bob focuses on making sure all students are...

Jun 29, 2014

This second part of the interview with Tom Whitford delves deeper into the great things he is doing. We discuss the following:

• Working with 3 different schools
• How he manages dealing with all that they have going on.
• Dealing with the new teacher evaluation system using the Danielson model
• What he has been focusing on...

Jun 22, 2014

This week’s interview is with Tom Whitford, an amazing principal of 3(!) schools in Wisconsin.

• His mentor that taught him a lot about how to be a leader and how to push yourself and others to be better, book reads, and more.
• Professional Learning Communities in Tom’s ideal world.
• PLCs require a whole philosophy...