As educators dive into spring breaks and spring cleaning, it’s also the perfect time for school leaders to do some strategic spring cleaning of their own: clearing out the clutter that’s blocking alignment and coherence in student learning. While the school year isn’t over yet, the foundation for next year’s success starts now. In her podcast School Leadership Reimagined, host Robyn Jackson introduces a powerful planning approach called 5 In/5 Out, which is a strategy every principal should consider implementing before the year ends to lay the groundwork for meaningful progress next school year.  Read More

Recently, it was commented to me that I wear rose-colored glasses, and it was not inherently intended as a compliment. It got me wondering about how at some point, wearing rose-colored glasses got a bad rap. 

Once a symbol of optimism and idealism, the phrase has been rebranded as a critique - an implication that one is naïve, unrealistic, or willfully ignorant of harsh realities. To see the world through rose-colored glasses, we’re told, is to overlook problems in favor of a falsely pleasant illusion. But what if we’ve got it all wrong? What if rose-colored glasses don’t have to mean ignoring reality? What if they simply allow us to see possibility alongside the problems - to see both what is and what could be?  Read More