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 activity. Take a look at your TimeTrack dashboard. Is this where you are spending the most time?

Three descriptors are generally used for instructional meetings:

• Decision Making Groups

• Planning, Curriculum and Assessment

• Professional Development

You can easily see how much time you spend in meetings by looking at your Dashboard. It is harder, though, to determine if time spend in these meetings helps move teacher practice forward.

It may be easier to look at the graph/chart showing time spent with individual groups.

The questions to start with:

1. Did you intend to spend more time with one group rather than another?

2. Why? What did you hope to accomplish by spending time with this group?

3. When you think about the time you spent with this group, can you identify how your presence improved the practice of individuals in the group or the group as a whole?

4. Would members of the group agree?

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. It takes intentionality.

When you have your SAM Daily Meeting you are setting yourself up for success. No matter the pressures you face, having a plan is better. The SAM’s job it to take the leader’s good intentions and make them happen. This occurs every day in over 1,200 SAM schools in 23 states.

Being in the GREEN and having your SAM Daily Meeting are the first and second leaflets of your journey in making your four-leaf clover a harbinger of good luck.

The third leaflet is reflection with data. Looking at the time spent with a teacher you need to assist is the start of reflective practice…and shows a level of intentionality that is truly impressive. Why? Because instead of focusing on what the teacher needs to do the SAM team considers what the leader needs to do. In other words, the change you seek is in the mirror.

The fourth leaflet is action. What will you schedule, actually do, that is different than what you normally do? What series of interactions with the teacher can you do that will make a difference?

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.

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