Category Archives: VCU EDD Reflections

14 Leadership Traits

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

I stare at this desk calendar every day.  It’s one of those ‘freebies’ the USMC gives out each year.  I scoop it up because it has a large writing area and I can make lots of notes.  I’ve not been very interested about the words that are on it.  The other day, I noticed that [...]
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Compassion in Schools – It Must be Intentional

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

“I think compassion is the bedrock of leadership, unless you can empathize with ‘other’,… I don’t know that you can lead” – Bo Adams, Former Junior High School Principal Bo Adams Blog and video above made me reflect back on our Advocacy class.  Educational leadership is more than raising test scores.  It is about making [...]
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Does Class Size Matter?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 4

Tonight in class we had a spirited debate about whether class size matters.  A somewhat dated, yet applicable article called When Politics Meets Practice (1998) weighs such questions as: What does the research say? What are the trade-off’s to small class sizes? How did California’s Class Size Reduction Initiative work out? What are the political [...]
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Operation Smile

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

The following video is a thank you to the volunteers of Operation Smile by Dr. Bill Magee.  In his address, he notes what is possible with a network of volunteers who have a passion for touching lives.  He discusses the successes Operation Smile has accomplished over the past 25 years and credits it to the [...] Read more »

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What is My Brand?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 1

As I reflect on my values, I think about a professional learning experience I had a couple years back.  I had an opportunity to visit Marine Corps boot camp in Paris Island,  South Carolina.  There I witnessed the Marine Corps instilling their values of honor, courage and commitment to the recruits.  Through physically and mentally [...] Read more »

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Helping Hands

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 4

What do students in ISS do, exactly?  Do they sit in a room (cell) and complete work their teachers send down?  Sometimes a time-out is needed for unruly students.  Other times, it’s a precursor to a vicious cycle of ISS, OSS, truancy and eventually dropping out. This year, my school set out to develop a [...] Read more »

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Invisible Children

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

A couple weeks ago a teacher introduced me to the Invisible Children organization.  She said that she would like to bring them to our school to raise awareness of current global events and humanitarian organizations.  Despite considerable consternation on her part due to a recent Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc), I encouraged the event.  They came on [...] Read more »

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VMI Leadership Conference

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

Does your school have an honor code?  Until this year, my school had not established an honor code.  The creation of an honor code was an outgrowth of a teacher-led committee desiring to address the lack of academic integrity within our school. The honor code defines and gives examples of academic dishonesty at length.  This [...] Read more »

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No Policy Issue

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

Have you ever encountered an issue where you had to make a decision where there was no policy to back you up?  When your decision was challenged, what was the result?  This was a situation I recently encountered. At the high school level, GPA and grading policies are hot topics.  A couple weeks ago, a [...] Read more »

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Student Attendance or lack thereof

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Eric Wright | Permalink 0

Recently there have been several court cases where parents have been prosecuted over the tardiness of their children.  The argument is that a student’s education is significantly disrupted when they often come late to school.  One Loudon County parent was found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor by having her students tardy [...] Read more »

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