Like many of you, Davonia and I have friends scattered all over the country and our communication with them all too often happens through ...

Do you find yourself spending too much time answering calls from telemarketers and wading through piles of junk mail? If you would like a ...

Recently, I received the following simple suggestion in an e-mail message: When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, pleas...

During my last final year as a principal, I discovered blogging to be an effective and terrifically easy way to keep both staff and parents ...

For me, American Education Week has always served as a time to devote some time to think about those teachers whose contributions have made...

The message today comes from Elizabeth Messer whose husband, Lee, was my superintendent for four years. Each morning, she sends a quote to m...

Today's post is a very personal one, a Happy Birthday wish to my wife of 18 years, Davonia. She is truly the light of my life!

The National Association of Elementary Principals is sponsoring a "Proud to Be a Principal" campaign which runs through November 1...

Forgotten items, missed school busses, and frazzled nerves can so often be traced back to one simple problem—assuming Rome can be built ...

So much of the information exchanged between the home and the school happen through written communication. Report cards, weekly folders, n...

For some students, the book bag is a big black hole into which papers go and are never seen again. When the student finally cleans out th...

So what does a staph infection of the notorious " Super Bug " have to do with a blog related to time management and organization? ...

This morning was a little perplexing. The alarm clock beside the bed said one time. The VCR in the same room, however, read one hour earlier...

As adults, we remember fondly the English teacher who assigned the term paper (due 2 months hence), and then said, “I want you to turn in yo...

A number of years ago, I composed an article for a parent newsletter entitle " Managing School the Easy Way " when I was serving a...

The Effective Executive by Dr. Peter Drucker ranks as one of my all-time favorite books. Copyrighted in 1966, its advice in the area of time...

The Daylight Saving Time Problem is still for real! I had written about this problem back in the spring. That post is here . The idea is thi...

Last night as I was watching the Alabama football team go down in defeat, I was going down to defeat at the hands of a spreadsheet I had bee...

I participate in several time management/personal productivity discussion groups. The exchange of ideas healthy and even when disagreement ...

Sometimes, the best thing to do is jump into a task and get it done. Sometimes, the best thing to do is step back, relax, and plan. Yesterda...