The next step

After six years vice principaling, my next step--acting principal--has appeared. The journey through education's other classrooms, the ones without room numbers and teachers' names, has taken me to the place where my ability (or lack thereof) to run a school will be tested until March 2012. Fortified with a fresh dose of Bruce Beairsto, Ted McCain, John Hattie, Doug Willms, and some tonic from the powers that be, I leap into the "Big Chair", gung ho to make my mark and share my hope for tomorrow's leaders with whomever will listen.