“The principal is the leader of the learning, the one who leads the school community in learning about and implementing best practices and ensuring a culture of continuous learning and improvement.” - Rick DuFour

“If principals do not go out of their way to learn more (inside and outside of the school), regardless of what the system is doing, they cannot become a pressure point for positive change.” - Fullan Leaders are learners!

This will be a great experience!

As a new assistant principal, you know that supporting your struggling teachers requires more than just observations and feedback conversations. One often overlooked key to helping teachers improve their practice is providing timely and targeted professional development

Let’s goooo! It’s a great day to be an SMU Mustang!!!!

Let’s goooo!!!! #WeAreRichland

Good friends. Good football. Good times. I love that we go on these little adventures every year!

Up next! Really excited about this one! #LeadersAreReaders

“It is a book about how to listen. How to be curious. How to learn to love the feeling of making others feel welcome. It is a book about how to make people feel like they belong.” As a school leader, if that doesn’t get you excited to read a book, I don’t k ow what will.

When you go visit your Richland High School kids at Prosper High School, and you get roped into lunch duty… 💜🤣😎 #WeAreRichland

Excited about the opportunity!

Spending the day at the Region 10 ESC Principal Workshop learning with &@zsal72 & Stacie Wilson. This morning, we spent time making sure our calendars and organizational systems align to our goals and priorities. Excited about continuing to dive deeper into the systems and

Super proud of my friend Nick Jones and the work he and his staff at Prosper High School are doing! This is a huge step toward becoming a Model PLC campus! #ProsperProud

It’s a great time to be an SMU Mustang! So many great things happening on the Hilltop! #PonyUp

“Look across every discipline, in every arena - sports, entertainment, design, technology, finance - you need to be unreasonable to see a world that doesn’t yet exist.” - #UnreasonableHospitality I would add education to that list!

Having your organization called a “cult” by outsiders isn’t always a bad thing because “a cult is what people who work for companies that haven’t invested enough in their cultures tend to call the companies that have.” - Will Guidara #UnreasonableHospitality

“All it takes for something extraordinary to happen is one person with enthusiasm.” - Richard Coraine #UnreasonableHospitality

“A leader’s responsibility is to identify the strengths of the people on their team, no matter how buried those strengths might be.” - Will Guidara

One of the best ways to spend a morning is opening car doors at an elementary school on picture day. The #FutureRaiders at Stuber Elementary were looking sharp this morning! #ProsperProud #WeAreRichland

“If you can’t find more compliments to deliver than criticism, that’s a failure in leadership - either you’re not coaching the person sufficiently, or you’ve tried and it’s not working, which means they should no longer be on the team.” - Will Guidara -#UnreasonableHospitality