Qualities of Effective Principals Cross-posted at the Huffington Post: Effective Leadership in the Age of Reform. School improvement efforts rely heavily on quality leadership. Educational leaders are tasked with establishing a collective vision for school improvement and initiating change to spur innovation‚ ensure student learning‚ and increase achievement. On July 13th I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. James Strong‚ from the College of William and Mary‚ deliver a keynote address at the
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------------------------------------------------- Problems Teenagers gain an increasing amount of independence from their parents as they enter middle and high school. Unlike the early years‚ kids in this age group often look to friends instead of parents for guidance. The pressure to fit in and be part of the "cool crowd" clouds the judgment of vulnerable kids. ------------------------------------------------- Bullying Bullying frequently occurs in the halls of high schools. It ranges from
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Effects of Drugs on Adolecents Drug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in colleges today. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years‚ these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity‚ clarifying their sexual roles‚ assenting independence‚ learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily‚ adolescents are curious
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Should Parents Limit the Use of Social Media by Teenagers? How do you connect with your friends? Meeting each other face-to face? Using mobile phones? Or just watching what they posted on Facebook and Twitter? Social media‚ including Facebook‚ Twitter and YouTube‚ is a two-way communication media that helps people to stay connected to other sites‚ resources and people. In today’s society‚ staying connected to others is very important‚ especially for the teenagers‚ who need to keep themselves up-dated
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Taking On Responsibility While not everybody takes on their personal responsibilities‚ as they should‚ every person still has them. Personal responsibilities are found in everyday life. Taking responsibility for the personal things in a person’s life is only but their own. In this essay‚ I will be showing the different personal responsibilities in a person’s personal life‚ school life‚ and their work life. By my own account‚ I define personal responsibility in a person’s personal life as
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where two teenagers fall in love? Has your teenager ever asked you if you could allow them to date? What was your response? My response would be that teenagers should be allowed to date at the age of sixteen. One reason would be that teenagers are mature enough to make their own decisions in a relationship at the age of sixteen. Another reason would be that teenagers are more attracted to the same or opposite sex at this age and want to start dating. And the last reason would be that teenagers want someone
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Being a Teenager To be a teenager today has its positives and its negatives‚ but it’s actually fun. Being a teenager can be stressful and you have to be responsible‚ but it’s also a fun experience. To those who want to remember what it’s like to be a teenager or those who will be in the future‚ this is what it’s going to be like. Stress is a part about being a teenager today. Three reasons why teenagers get stressful are because of sucky teachers‚ siblings‚ and even parents. First of all having
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Turn Taking Because conversations need to be organised‚ there are rules or principles for establishing who talks and then who talks next. This process is called turn-takinandf‚ as aforementioned‚ with their favorite game being Doom. In the book Columbine by Dave Cullen‚ it states that Harris and Klebold‚ according to their attempt at a more grandiose‚ elaborate‚ and terrifying attack than the one they committed‚ wanted to commit the deadliest terrorist attack the U.S. has ever seen‚ by killing
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detail beyond just understanding Third run through: (25:75 study:Q’s)* 1) FA‚ Goljan‚ HY molec only 2) 100 UsmleWorld questions (as above) 3) Take NBME 3 4) Everything should be fully memorized by now Last two weeks and final 3 days: details below * the % study:Q’s reflects the amount of time per day that should be spent on each‚ with the amount of time spent doing questions progressing up as you move along through each run through the information and the
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to swim‚ for example. In order to learn to swim we must plunge into the water first. Initially‚ we might swallow a bit of water and become disoriented‚ but gradually our natural ability will take over and we feel at home in the water. If instead of taking the risk of plunging into the water‚ we take elaborate steps in studying about all aspects of swimming‚ theorizing about it and then carefully testing things out‚ we would probably never get to the actual process of swimming. Even if we do learn to
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