June 28, 2007
Moving to New Blog Site
Folks,
This is my last post with the Center for School Leadership Development. I've been honored to have had the chance to work with many of you in various roles over the past 5 years.
You can continue reading and "joining the fray" by going to my new blog site, Your Executive Edge. The URL is listed at the bottom of this post.
Best to you and I look forward to continuing the conversation, finding and sharing tips and tools to help you become even more effective.
http://yourexecutiveedge.wordpress.com/
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June 27, 2007
Thanks to Brad Sneeden
As many of you know, Brad Sneeden will be leaving the Principals' Executive Program to serve as Superintendent of Carteret County Schools, beginning in July 2007.
I've been exceedingly fortunate to have the chance to work with lots of terrific people at PEP, but I've especially been lucky to have had the chance to work with Brad. He has led PEP to find ways to serve more school executives by expanding the Leadership Program for New Principals and Leadership Program for Aspiring Principals, initiating a program for experienced principals (Leadership Program for Experienced Principals), rallying support for school executives with the State of the Principalship, regrowing partnerships with the RESAs around the state, initiating a partnership with multiple groups to create an Executive Leadership Academy for school superintendents, and a multitude of other initiatives that have significantly increased the capacity of school executives.
Thanks to Brad for his leadership, his vision, his energy, and his passion for helping to continue to increase the capacity of school executives.
I'll miss working with him as closely as I have, but Carteret County students and families are getting a terrific individual as superintendent.
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June 14, 2007
Next to Last Posting?
This post is difficult. Last week, I submitted my resignation as the Principal Fellows Director. Starting July 9, I will be working with Kenan Flagler Business School's Executive Development team. I will be working with another terrific group of people to design and deliver leadership development to the members of the United States Military and the Federal government.
It's bittersweet (or as my terrific program coordinator, Caroline Green noted, "Parting is such sweet sorrow") to write this because I've enjoyed being able to bring some different and hopefully interesting management and leadership tidbits to school executives in NC and around the world.
My initial thought is to continue "the conversation" on another blog that I'd be glad to share with you (just send me an email by July 1st), but another real possibility is just putting the blog on hiatus until further notice. The folks at the Center have been very accomodating so all is good on this end.
Some ideas that I have heard from some of you that interest me (hopefully you as well!?) are continuing the blog in a different part of the web or possibly doing what could be the ultimate in collaboration (writing a book collaboratively on the web and then publishing it in either hard copy or as an e-book). Inspiration for the last idea comes from the "Big Moo", for those who might be interested. We did a similar book with a high school senior, who interned with me this past fall and he and I ended up writing a book of selected Principal Fellow Profiles. As an aside, he told me that the book was a powerful differentiator for him in his college admissions. He's going to pursue journalism at Campbell University. Best of luck, Eric!
What's cool about this book idea is that we could tap into the expertise of many of the school executives around this state who have great ideas and solutions for pressing issues. I'm certainly not trying to make money off of this-any proceeds would go to charity. I'm interested to see if this idea has any merit to help school executives become even better in their work.
I'll write another post or two in the coming two weeks to let you know what I'm thinking. Let me know what you are thinking as well!
Chris
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