Informing the Year Ahead
Photo Credit Wow! It has certainly been a week. But isn't the first week of the year always a little hectic? No matter how well you plan over the summer, you never quite know how things will go once you add the students and staff. This year was no different. In reflecting on the week, I noticed a few points that I feel are going to inform my year and help me to be a better administrator. Photo Credit 1. Lesson one: flexibility and patience! Technology will always start off a little rocky so don't expect it to go smoothly! We had so many IT issues I was ready to just hand out paper and pencils and call it a day. But the faculty kept plugging along and the more I communicated with them, the easier it got. By Friday, most of the challenges had been smoothed out. We still have some big issues to tackle in the coming weeks in order to get everything up to full speed but I was very pleased with the progress an...