Eduleadership

How To Write With ChatGPT But Still Sound Like Yourself—we’ve come up with the best way to store your writing preferences.

Article: https://www.principalcenter.com/how-to-write-with-chatgpt-but-still-sound-like-yourself/

How to practice interview questions 🧵

Thinking through practice questions is helpful…but not enough.

Most people say too little.

Most people are terrified that they’ll ramble, so they stop talking after about a minute.

They also tend to get self-conscious that they’re not giving anyone else a chance to talk…but of course this is an interview, not a conversation.

Think like a stand-up comedian: you need a “tight 5” answer for every question.

When you can speak uninterrupted for 5 minutes, you’re ready.

Free practice questions:

https://www.principalcenter.com/interview
More tips: https://www.principalcenter.com/toolkit

If you came back to a messy desk, do NOT set aside time to clean it.

Instead, set up these 3 systems:
1. Chronological File
2. Future File
3. Next Action Stickies

You’ll just need: a box, folders, sticky notes

Full article:

https://www.principalcenter.com/how-to-clear-your-desk-and-keep-it-clean-a-guide-for-principals/

New podcast for anyone interested in leadership pipelines: Peter Marshall—Today’s Teachers, Tomorrow’s Leaders: A Guide to Identifying and Developing Future Administrators

Listen on YouTube, Spotify, in your favorite app, or at:

https://www.principalcenter.com/peter-marshall-todays-teachers-tomorrows-leaders-a-guide-to-identifying-and-developing-future-administrators/

If you have an admin interview coming up, here are 10 specific categories of question you’ll want to practice:

52 practice questions covering all 10 categories:

https://www.principalcenter.com/interview

Take the Instructional Leadership Challenge and develop a consistent habit of getting into classrooms every day—joining more than 15,000 people who’ve taken the plunge since 2013.

See what’s included here:

https://www.principalcenter.com/challenge

Three ways to use your evaluation criteria in observations and walkthroughs:

1. Remember that they are written re: overall practice, NOT as observation look-fors, and not everything that matters is directly observable

2. Keep them in mind as you observe, as a set of lenses

3. Use their language - quoted or paraphrased - in your writing.

Try Repertoire free:
https://www.principalcenter.com/repertoire

If you want to get into classrooms this year, here’s a plan:

1. Visit 3 teachers a day for 5-15 min each

2. Keep track of which teachers & classes

3. Ask evidence-driven questions (on back)

Free to download:

https://www.principalcenter.com/notecards

Admin job seekers—these are both 90% off with coupon code “NEW” today & tomorrow only.

Rapid Interview Prep Toolkit

Ed Leadership Job Application Template Bundle

Use coupon code NEW to get them for $10 each:

https://www.principalcenter.com/toolkit

https://www.principalcenter.com/template

We will always need Tier 2-3 supports, and in many schools, for > 50% of students. See X for full versions.

“All students learn differently.”

This is one of those things that sounds OBVIOUSLY true to anyone who’s been in education a while.

But it’s false. There’s a whole field studying how people learn, and “all differently” is not one of its findings.