Author: Todd Nesloney

This post was co-written with Roman Nowak. On social media, so often we see posts of countdowns to the weekend, Christmas, Spring Break, summer; it is usually accompanied by elation and celebration. As students and educators, we often can’t wait until there is a break from school. Why is that? We know it’s because we work…

Over the past year or so I’ve really been thinking about the messages we send.  Those things we do that speak louder than the words that are coming out of our mouths. Back in January of 2016, I wrote a post called “My Journey: Race, Economics, and White-Privilege“.  That post was my first time to…

“When we spill our emotions onto blank pages, we can see, through words, the problems that plague us. It is a unique way of healing”  Travis Crowder     Writing, and blogging specifically, have been such a great release for me. I still remember when I started my blog a few years ago. I was…

The closer we get to Spring it seems like the shorter our fuses get and the more rambunctious and misbehaving our kids become. As a classroom teacher I loved having “those kids”.  The ones that the teacher from the year before would warn you about.  The ones who pushed every single button you have, and…

This post was co-written with Travis Crowder. You can follow him on Twitter HERE or his own blog HERE. We’ve all been there at one point or another….that moment where a child needs a consequence and as educators we jump straight to “write this sentence 100 times” or “sit there and read your book in…

Every so often I love to write a post sharing with you some people on social media who have been inspiring me.  I am connected with, and inspired by, so many!  So this is in NO WAY the complete list!  But these are a few that I’ve come to find in the last month or…

This week has been a week of deep reflection for me.  Every one of us goes through periods where we doubt our gifts, where we wonder if the place we find ourselves in is the place we’re best suited.  And for whatever reason I’ve always felt that February is by far the most difficult month…

If you take just a minute to turn on the television or pull up a news article, you are bombarded with news and information.  Much of which has become a stream of gasp-inducing executive orders, mean-spirited Tweets/Facebook posts, or worse. One of my favorite things about being a principal is the opportunity to go into…

Something we talk about quite often is growing.  Growing as professionals and personally as well.  Not one of us has reached that pinnacle of knowing everything.  Though sometimes we all like to act (yes, even me) like we do! As campus leaders part of our job is to work with teachers to help them grow….

I know that each of us has worked on a team or campus where people complain.  Where people are negative.  They don’t like a certain person and talk about it all the time.  They don’t like a decision that was made and complain to you about it for hours (or sometimes days).  The parents are…

  On Friday, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) released information on a new Texas Rating system.  It’s a very simplified rating system that gives every school and district in Texas ratings on a A-F scale.  Even though this system will not officially go into effect until August of 2018 (yes, 2018), the state released preliminary…

Fear. When you think about that word I think we all have something different we think of.  Some have a fear of snakes or spiders.  Others may fear the thought of losing someone or dying alone. And in the education system we have fears too. The fear of failure is one. We work in a…