{"id":2926,"date":"2024-01-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2024-01-03T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:38:23","slug":"the-principal-as-point-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-principal-as-point-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Principal as Point Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports analogies are often overdone in P-12 education &#8230; especially in southern states where many principals started their careers as coaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascd.org\/el\/articles\/the-principal-as-the-point-guard-for-literacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> provides an interesting new slant (even for those who don&#8217;t really understand sports) about why it&#8217;s important for the principal to take the lead in <strong>literacy<\/strong>. And that mindset can be vital because &#8220;developing a culture of literacy in school and the community would improve access, opportunity, and equity for all students.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we&#8217;ve pointed out many times before, the decisions we make as educational leaders can truly impact student learning and outcomes &#8230; and that can change lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports analogies are often overdone in P-12 education &#8230; especially in southern states where many principals started their careers as coaches. But this article provides an interesting new slant (even for those who don&#8217;t really understand sports) about why it&#8217;s important for the principal to take the lead in literacy. And that mindset can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,552,553,554],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leadership","tag-literacy","tag-point-guard","tag-salome-thomas-el","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}