Happy late August 2019 Monday Moanin to all of you. For many of you in the Midwest your initial staff meetings will be this week while some of you have already started the 2019-20 school year. Usually your opening meeting focuses on your staff and celebrating their return and welcoming your new members. This is […]
Happy Monday Moanin to all of you. The 2019-20 school year is almost here. During the past several weeks I have reread The Habitudes Series by Tim Elmore. His thoughts and writings are about a belief that there are images that form leadership habits and attitudes. Below are five of my favorite quotes taken from […]
Happy Monday Moanin to all of you. Every year at the Hickey Leadership Planning Summit, I share top tweets to consider using to guide your practice. This year I am publishing them in this MMT. All of these had at least 3000 impressions when posted. They are:
Happy late July, 2019 Monday Moanin to all of you. On August 1st, over 120 educators from the tri-county area of Detroit will attend the 9th Annual Hickey Leadership Group Planning Summit. It is during the Summit that participants begin to do some focused planning with their teams for the upcoming 2019-20 school year. Every […]
Welcome to the first Monday Moanin of July 2019. For many of you this may be your first weeks of summer vacation. After a long and challenging school year it is important to recharge and get some rest. Enjoy some quality time with friends and family and enjoy your time away. After a few weeks […]
Welcome to an early MMT and happy Fathers Day 2019. For many of you tomorrow may be the first Monday Moanin in a long time when you can hit the snooze on your iPhone alarm. Enjoy the experience! Today, I think about all of the men who have influenced me in my life and I […]
Happy first Monday Moanin June, 2019 to all of you. For many of you this may begin the final weeks of school of the 2018-19 school year. For many students, these final days can be filled with lots of emotions, distractions, and for some, anxiety. Not all kids are looking forward to a summer break. […]
Wow we did it. We made it to the third Monday Moanin of May 2019. For many of us educators, the month of May signals the school year will be ending soon. With this comes many invitations to focus more on being reactive than proactive. It is a real challenge to focus on good teaching […]
It is hard to believe that we have reached May, 2019. Happy Monday Moanin to all of you. As I wrote in the last two MMT’s this is the time of year for a renewal and a good cleaning. This is also the time of year for many year-end activities that simply put, are filled […]
Happy Easter/Passover Monday Moanin of April 2019. For most of us in Michigan we have reached the time of year to begin the annual event of spring cleaning. OMG, we hit the 70 degree mark yesterday. It’s finally time to open up the windows and get rid of the cooped up stale winter air and […]