Posts Tagged ‘listen’
Value Based Budgeting
Budget Priorities: What You Value Most Spring brings April showers—and enrollment projections, staffing allocations, and budgeting decisions. Essentially, we are doing three jobs at once: finishing strong, celebrating with grads and retirees, and hiring for the coming year. As one colleague puts it, “God blesses educators with a forgetful memory; otherwise, we would never go…
Read MoreStudent Voice
Know better … Do Better … Listening to Student Voice Want to build back better? Listen to student voice. Students are in class all day every day. Their wisdom will astound you. And hopefully change you for the better. Those are some of the take-aways from this interview with Jenn McDermott, Director of Innovative Initiatives…
Read MoreRacial Equity – Act Now
Racial Equity – 7 Action Steps Nationally, we are asking, Will this time be different? Will we embrace the challenge to think differently, talk differently, do differently? I hope so. News media are reporting that now more than ever before well over half of all Americans believe change is needed to overcome institutional racism and…
Read MoreConnect and Communicate
Connect, Connect, Connect In uncertain times connect OFTEN … even when you feel like you have nothing to say. In times of change everyone is uncertain, on edge, fearful. If you don’t communicate, rumors will run rampant. But what do I say, when everything seems to be changing daily? Three phrases to use often ……
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