Jim Mercer
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 6/6/22: Using Sociograms to strengthen connections
June 6, 2022 Today’s Tip: Using Sociograms to strengthen connections We are pleased to share a new series of videos featuring SAM ...
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Jim Mercer
- Jun 5, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 5/31/22: Try a Few Exit Interviews with Students
May 31, 2022 Today’s Tip: Try a few exit interviews with students Last week we shared how SAM leaders can conduct exit interviews with...
Jim Mercer
- May 15, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 5/9/22: Do More Than Thank Your First Responders
Today’s Tip: Do More Than Thank Your First Responders Your FirstResponders® likely decrease the times you are pulled away from events...
Jim Mercer
- May 8, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip: 5/2/22 - Congratulate SAM Principal Heather Buckley.
Today’s Tip: Congratulate SAM Principal Heather Buckley. Iowa’s Elementary Principal of the year is Heather Buckley, Cardinal ES. I...
Jim Mercer
- Apr 27, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 4/25/22: Review the new Performance Rubrics
Today’s Tip: Review the new Performance Rubrics In May and June each year Time Change Coaches work with SAM teams to complete a...
Jim Mercer
- Apr 17, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 4/18/22: Breakout sessions from the last annual national SAM Conference
Today’s Tip: Take a look at the breakout sessions from the last annual national SAM conference: Maximizing the SAM Process Utilizing the...
Jim Mercer
- Apr 15, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 4/11/22: Visit the new SAM websites
Today’s Tip: Visit the new SAM websites. Congratulations to Jim Mercer. He has finished the new NSIP websites. You can access the home...
Jim Mercer
- Apr 4, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 4/4/22: Consider who most needs your help.
Today’s Tip: Consider who most needs your help. The SAM process asks you to consider each day how you can positively impact teaching and...
Jim Mercer
- Mar 28, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 3/28/22
Today’s Tip: Accept this, the fourth of eight invitations, to see keynote clips and breakout sessions in HD from the January 2022...
Jim Mercer
- Mar 21, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 3/21/22: Consider where you are spending your instructional time.
Today’s Tip: Consider where you are spending your instructional time. Most school leaders spend more time in meetings than any other...
Jim Mercer
- Mar 14, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 3/14/22: This is a GREAT week to be in the GREEN.
Today’s Tip: This is a GREAT week to be in the GREEN. St. Patrick’s Day is Thursday. It takes more than luck, though, to be in GREEN. ...
Jim Mercer
- Mar 7, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip - 3/7/22: You Matter. You are needed. You are valued.
Today’s Tip: You Matter. You are needed. You are valued. Hear what six leaders want you to know today: Please feel free to share this...
Jim Mercer
- Feb 28, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 2/28/22: Revisit your Target Descriptors
Today’s Tip: Revisit your Target Descriptors When you started the SAM process you selected three target descriptors…three things you...
Jim Mercer
- Feb 21, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 2/21/22: Try Behavioral Activation
Today’s Tip: Try Behavioral Activation Feeling stuck? The press of the work, the weight of the responsibility and the seemingly endless...
Jim Mercer
- Feb 14, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 2/14/22: Access Data Three Ways
Most SAM teams access data and charts about their work with individual teachers by going to the Dashboard. There are two faster an easier...
Jim Mercer
- Feb 7, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 2/7/22: Use Your TimeTrack Data
Today’s Tip: Use Your TimeTrack Data Many SAM teams are completing annual evaluations for teachers and support staff in February. The...
Jim Mercer
- Jan 24, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 1/24/22: National SAM Conference this Week
Today’s Tip: National SAM Conference this Week The 15th Annual National SAM Conference starts Thursday with three all-day sessions...
Jim Mercer
- Jan 17, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 1/17/22: Appreciate Your First Responders
Take a few minutes each week in your SAM Daily Meeting to consider the impact of your First Responders and schedule time to say thanks....
Jim Mercer
- Jan 10, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 1/10/22: Listen More
Today’s Tip: Listen More How about a New Year’s resolution to improve your listening and speaking skills? Research shows many leaders...
Jim Mercer
- Jan 3, 2022
SamTastic Weekly Tip – 1/3/22: This has been a weird school year…
Today’s Tip: This has been a weird school year…following a stressful and damaging first full year of the pandemic. We thought Covid would...
Jim Mercer
- Nov 9, 2020
SamTastic Weekly Tip: 11/9/20 - A Leadership Lesson from President-Elect Joe Biden
This week’s tip: A Leadership Lesson from President-Elect Joe Biden: “Leadership, at its core, in my view, is about being personal. You...
Jim Mercer
- Nov 2, 2020
SamTastic Weekly Tip: 11/2/20 - Three in one: Vote. Stay safe. Test Negative.
This week’s tip: Three in one: Vote. Stay safe. Test Negative. This has been a long election process and a longer struggle with the...
Jim Mercer
- Oct 12, 2020
SamTastic Weekly Tip: 10/12/20 - Accept and Nurture Parents As New Members of your Staff
This week’s tip: Accept and Nurture Parents As New Members of your Staff. With the pandemic parents and guardians have been elevated to...
Jim Mercer
- Oct 5, 2020
SamTastic Weekly Tip: 10/5/20 - Ask Better Questions
This week’s tip: Ask Better Questions Asking better questions will make you a far better leader. Hal Gregerson, Wall Street Journal,...
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