Blogging for Principals

What if a principal could communicate with parents, encourage teachers, act as a learning role model for students, and keep a record of his or her ideas with one tool? They can with a blog. An administrator could use a blog as a professional diary, choosing which entries to post and which to archive. Information shared with parents, teachers or students could stimulate conversations that might never happen in person. As for the posts not published, this provides a journal of ideas or reflections that allow a principal to look back and evaluate their handling of different situations. Between information gathered from others' responses to the published blogs and that gleaned through reflection, an administrator is can develop a host of inquiries. Any of these inquiries could be the "wondering" that improves the education their school provides to students.