The Real Reason It's So Easy to Be an Accidental Diminisher It’s February, the fitness center crowds are nearly back to normal; your carefully crafted meal plan a distant memory; and your best delegation efforts now look more like micromanagement veiled in the guise of “being helpful.” Like the [...]
Accountability Questions: Who's Own's It? With business clients, I often have the privilege of participating in annual strategy sessions where division leaders roll out the annual plan, key objectives and milestones. You know these meetings – lots of fanfare, objectives ready for cascading, clarifying questions – all intended to [...]
Asking the Right Questions to Engage Parents and Students It’s been a great start to the year! My daughter came home the first day and said, “Mom, I think school should be longer every day.” Now, that’s either a sign that summer break was a terrible experience; or, that she is [...]
What if the Questions You Ask Actually Kill Your Productivity and Reach? As educators we all love the moments that we see light bulbs go on in the classroom. It is no different with adult learners. We experience a lot of these “ah-ha moments” during Multiplier leadership workshops while working through [...]
How does a school system leader tap into the latent talent that sits inside the district? At a time when expectations are rising while funding is plummeting, doing more with less has become standard operating procedure. Administrators from all corners are feeling the burden — if not in navigating a complex funding formula, then [...]
Becoming a Multiplier often starts with becoming less of a Diminisher. And this often means doing less: less talking, less responding, less convincing, and less rescuing of others who need to struggle and learn for themselves. By doing less, we can become more of a Multiplier. Doing less to achieve more is one of many [...]
Read: Multiply Teacher Talent, Principal Magazine (Nov/Dec 2014) Multiply Teacher Talent What if your well intended guidance stifles gifted teaching, rather than encourages it? The research is clear: Teacher quality is the single most important school-based factor in student achievement. However, the equation that guarantees that every student experiences a high-quality teacher [...]
When it comes to improving schools...what could work? When it comes to "improving" schools, students, and teachers, there's no shortage of opinions out there on what won't work. We wanted to know, what could work? For several months, we asked people to tell us one tangible education idea they had that was worth spreading. [...]
