Principaling - What Is It?
Welcome to the blog! I sincerely hope that you will derive great benefit from the postings made here. I subscribe to the four burners philosophy in life - trying to maintain a balance between: 1. Work 2. Family 3. Hobbies/Social 4. Health Primarily this blog will explore what one can do in their 'Work', but like so much in life, things are interconnected. A small tweak or improvement in one area can have flow-on positive effects in another. What exactly is Principal-ing? First, let me explain with some background. Take your mind back to Year 9 Chemistry. Remember that grizzly old science teacher with way too much facial hair and a sweater from the 1970s? Well if you can you are doing well. Can you remember anything they may have tried to teach you? like what photosynthesis is all about? Yes the leaves. The green leaves are filled with chloro.... chlorophyll. Then there was a detail about converting sunlight into energy, and then we all get oxygen. Well if the memory banks are r...