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  Unforgettable Experiences By: Adam Lane, Principal, Haines City High School The importance of creating unforgettable experiences for our staff, students, parents, and community members must always be at the top of our priorities when planning out the activities of our days, weeks, and months ahead. It was an honor to visit with the city and business leaders of Haines City, as we had the chance to discuss the various strategies we use to create unforgettable experiences and how these experiences are extremely important, regardless of the leadership role in which you serve. The real estate professional looks to create an unforgettable home showing that will lead to a purchase of the property and a place to create new family memories. The doctor looks to create an unforgettable experience that calms the nerves of the patient and leaves them with usable assessment knowledge. The city manager looks to create an unforgettable experience that makes the community member feel safe...

4 Ways to Support Your Exhausted Teachers Chris Everett, Ed.D. Chief of Staff, engage2learn Like many other education leaders, I have great concern for the current condition of public education in our country. The challenges facing adults who have dedicated their careers to the service of our future – our children – are many. Staffing shortages and the increasing logistical complexities are overwhelming and paint a perilous picture of our public school system. School leaders face tremendous pressure to find workable solutions before the great resignation leaves their classrooms empty. When asked, “What percent of teachers quitting would create a cataclysmic drop in your organization’s ability to educate young people?” one superintendent responded, “One. One teacher quitting would hurt us in a big way.” I’ve also read recently that the potential for the mass exodus of education professionals won’t necessarily be reality, as many in the profession can’t simply up and leave. This has the ...

 By: Adam Lane, Principal, Haines City High School The importance of establishing behavior expectations, teaching and modeling these expectations, and rewarding the students that meet these behavior expectations. What an honor to spend the morning with the educational leadership team and various worship staff at Shalom Christian Academy in Davenport, FL.  I commend them all for coming together and investing time to listen, learn and discuss strategies, for providing the absolute best learning environment for their students! We focused on establishing teacher and student expectations, how to teach these expectations and how to celebrate success when these expectations are met. As educators, we cannot assume when students arrive on our campus for the first time, that they know how to behave properly. We must teach, model, and reward behavior that aligns with the desired expectations. Why is it that as teachers in Math, Science, English, and all content areas we teach, re-teach, ...