Saturday, November 24, 2012

Blogs for Educational Leaders

Blogs can be a great way for principals to communicate with staff, parents, stakeholders, and other principals. We live in very hurried society these days. Administrators and staff rarely have day to day face contact let alone daily converstaion. Often the only time parents converse with the pricipal is when their child breaks a school rule and is pending the consequences. Blogging can keep the lines of communication open between prinicpals and parents as well as administrators and staff. For example the principal may blog about his or her reaction to an interesting article they about student motivation. The blog can be a tool in which the staff can comment and ideas can be generated regarding how to implement the motivational tools in their classrooms. Blogs can also be used by administrators to develop a repoire with busy parents. The principal can blog about up-coming events, post pictures, and generate campus improvements with parents. I also like the idea that according to Dana (2009) "principals can share their journal writing or blogging time with students to model a love of writing" (p. 89).



Dana, N. F. (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
 

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