Cartoon shown during Murray Banks keynote at NCSA Administrator Days |
I know that first year I strived to make everything go perfectly and I spent every waking minute of the year focused on my job, but many things that we tried as a district and I tried as an educational leader were chalked up as learning experiences. The hardest thing for a perfectionist to do is to understand that not everything is going to go as planned and be an absolute hit. Murray did a great job of reminding me that we should all have way more learning experiences tallied up than successes; and a great administrator is one who can take those learning experiences and turn them into successes.
I have spent a lot of time this summer looking at those learning experiences and trying to find ways to turn those into successes. I am excited to bring my students and staff back for year two; and prepared to show them some new things we are going to try and some changes we will make to a few of those learning experiences from last year. I am sure they won't all be successes, but hoping some of the decisions and plans developed will impact learning and teacher effectiveness in my district.
I like that the cartoon has called things that don't work out learning experiences and not failures. Failures are things that you totally give up on and never workout. Hopefully all initiatives and changes being made in our schools are based off of the vision, mission, and goals of the district. We should continue to adapt and take the learning experiences and tweak them so that we are continually striving to meet our vision, mission, and goals.
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