After You Get Your Charter - Hiring Great Staff
Lisa DiGaudio Today, it seems that there are so many applicants out there looking for jobs. However, the greatest difficulty is finding future teachers that are compatible with your school's mission...
View ArticleThe Things They Don’t Tell You…
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School The model at New Dawn Charter High School is unique in that my role as the Instructional Leader of the school is dedicated predominantly to all...
View ArticlePreparing for Your Pre-Service with Staff
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School There never seems to be enough time to train staff before the new school year begins. The onus on new schools is even greater- mostly because in...
View ArticleThe Bucket List
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School After I had my daughter in 2001, I lost my job. Looking back now, this began a chain of events that would change my life forever. I was waiting...
View ArticleThe Bucket List
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School After I had my daughter in 2001, I lost my job. Looking back now, this began a chain of events that would change my life forever. I was waiting...
View ArticleCommon Core Year Two: What to do?
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal, New Dawn Charter High School So we all survived the first year of Common Core instructional shifts, and here we are, looking at the beginning of the school year with the next...
View ArticleHow the Tri-State Rubric Can Gauge Your Progress
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School I have mentioned it many, many times in my blog, but I didn’t dedicate a whole discussion on it, and now that we’re in the swing of our second...
View ArticleThe Common Core, ELL’s and SWD’s: The ABC’s of Succeeding with CCSS
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School I was at a round table event earlier this year discussing the Common Core and I was just shocked to find such passionate dissatisfaction with...
View ArticleCCSS, PD and You!
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School I talk a lot about professional development, but I have never really gone into detail about how it correlates to the Common Core State...
View ArticleWhen Disaster Strikes
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School It’s very easy to become complacent when the news is always blowing things out of proportion. When Hurricane Irene came ashore last summer, the...
View ArticleThe Things They Don’t Tell You…Part Two!
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School Once upon a time there was a harried Principal and Executive Director that worked at their brand new school...
View ArticleTo Bell or Not to Bell? More on School Culture
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School You know, there’s a big difference between the talking about school culture, and what really happens. We had planned on having a bell system,...
View ArticleThis is harder than it looks!
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School Well now that the first marking period is over, the students are settling in after Sandy, things are moving along, it’s time to take stock in...
View ArticleCan’t we just get along?
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School When I conduct professional development, one of the first things I say to any group of educators is that to be in this business, you have to check...
View ArticleLooking ahead to a new semester, and beyond
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School It’s amazing that we are looking at 2013 and Regents week are right around the corner. My stomach turns every time I think about it. We are...
View ArticleWriting the High School Schedule
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School Scheduling is a headache if you don’t have software that can run the programming for you. As a transfer charter high school, it is our obligation...
View ArticleLooking ahead to a new semester, and beyond...
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School It’s amazing that we are looking at 2013 and Regents week is right around the corner. My stomach turns every time I think about it. We are...
View ArticleThe “Organization”
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal New Dawn Charter High School In the last few weeks, I have been spending a lot of time trying to identify my dissertation topic. I can’t believe that I am at the point of...
View ArticleCommon Core and Data: How do we do this?
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School So how do we know that we are meeting the rigors of common core when we still can’t figure out how to apply growth outcomes to the New York...
View ArticleDiscipline: Why it’s so difficult for transfer schools
Lisa DiGaudio, Principal of New Dawn Charter High School In elementary schools and a more traditional high school setting, school leadership may have an easier time establishing a discipline policy....
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