• Compliance - The act or process of doing what you have been asked or ordered to do: the act or process of complying.
• Creativity - The ability to make new things or think of new ideas.

What have your professional development sessions looked like lately? With so many mandates to get used to, and accountability to work out, most professional development sessions have been about compliance. The sessions provided by most school leaders seem to loosely focus on data, which may or not involve the "good" data that can be used to drive instruction that will maximize student learning.

The situation has become dire that organizations like ASCD recently took their February edition ofEducational Leadership to focus on Building School Morale. Many of the authors in the leadership journal offered some great suggestions on how to make school a happier place. If you don't receiveEducational Leadership they offer some of the articles on-line for free by clicking here.

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