by Herbert ONeil | May 2, 2016 | Leadership
I knew her my whole life, but I had never experienced anything like this. It was fast-paced, high energy, and down right crazy at times. I’m talking about my Aunt Mary’s 5th grade classroom. Honestly, you had to be there to experience it. I can see...
by Herbert ONeil | Jan 18, 2016 | Leadership, The Principalship, Transformation
I wrote an article sometime ago about a few steps for transforming schools entitled “School Transformation a Lesson From Popeyes!” https://www.herbertoneil.com/school-transformation-a-lesson-from-popeyes-2/It was one of my favorite blog posts, maybe...
by Herbert ONeil | Dec 28, 2015 | Leadership, The Principalship, Transformation
In my last blog post I spent a little time being reflective about how I didn’t do a great job of helping teachers be better teachers when I was a campus principal. I thought it was important to talk about it so that as campus leaders we keep focused on what’s...
by Herbert ONeil | Dec 23, 2015 | Leadership, The Principalship, Transformation
It’s always pretty interesting to me when I notice the clear deficits I had when I was a campus principal. I always thought I did a great job of laying out a vision for the campus, having attainable goals, setting clear expectations, taking calculated learning risks,...
by Herbert ONeil | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is of my opinion that all school systems should spend intentional time helping to grow the leaders that they have in place. They should also spend time developing individuals that aspire to be administrators. During our great assistant principal leadership...
