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02
JAN
2019

Clear is Kind!

By Rhonda Roos, IPLI Mentor, Cohort 5 and Educational Consultant It’s that time of year again. As a principal, I remember that feeling in
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14
DEC
2018

The Store Room Tells the Story

By Michael R. Pinto, Cohort 2, 4, & 6 Mentor and Principal at James Cole Elementary School Are schools failing? Some say they are. If you look in any storeroom o
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27
NOV
2018

Carnivals to Theme Parks!

By Jack Birmingham, IPLI Mentor & Assistant Superintendent at Union Township School Corporation During the 1970s, as the summer days rolled around, there was a special
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25
OCT
2018

Fall Break: Time to Relax, Reflect, and Recommit

By Brian Disney, IPLI Mentor & Principal at Mooresville High School One of the beauties of the school year is its cyclical nature with endings and
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08
OCT
2018

Webbing Up for Staff

By Amy Bertram, IPLI Mentor and Principal at Fairfield Jr. Sr. High School For the last two years, my district has been focusing on what we need to do to help our students wit
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17
SEP
2018

My Life as a Three-Ring Circus

By Tina Noe, IPLI Mentor & Principal at Danville South Elementary Juggling.  It’s a skill very few can master.  It requires focus, planning, and synchronization.
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23
AUG
2018

I Wasn’t Good Enough: What I Learned After Leaving the Principalship

By Jack Parker, IPLI Cohort 5 Mentor and Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning, Center Grove Community School Corpo
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01
AUG
2018

Leadership in the Moments

By David Robertson, IPLI Mentor and Chief Academic Officer, Warsaw Community Schools Recently something uncomfortable happened to me.  I was sitting down to dinner on a w
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18
JUL
2018

Listening with Both Hands on the Wheel

By Mike Pinto, IPLI Mentor & Principal at James Cole Elementary On a trip this summer coming home from Alabama, the car sped north on I-65 through Alabam
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01
JUN
2018

Social Emotional Learning

By Lynlie Schoene, IPLI Mentor and Chief Innovation Officer at Franklin Township Community School Corporation In the educator’s world, June is the time for relief, relaxa
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