{"id":891,"date":"2009-06-08T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/weavers-rules-of-getting-her-own-way\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:57:12","slug":"weavers-rules-of-getting-her-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/weavers-rules-of-getting-her-own-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver&rsquo;s Rules of Getting Her Own Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Alfred Thompson \u2013 I swear most of my blog posts come from his ideas.&#160; Makes writing SO much easier.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s my rules for getting your own way when it comes to teaching.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember that being a quiet drop of water on rock will get you farther than if you rant and rave (though there is a time for that too).<\/li>\n<li>Take a page from Grace Hopper \u2013 it is easier to apologize than get permission.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Never ask a question that you haven\u2019t provided an answer for.&#160; In fact, that\u2019s my favorite technique, ask a question, and provide an answer to the question.&#160; Nine times out of time, administration is to busy to give an alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Have at least two plans of action:&#160; Example:&#160; I didn\u2019t have enough enrollment for a full classroom teacher this year, and I needed to come up with something to do for at least two class periods.&#160; Admin. wanted me free those three class periods but this economy and a new boss, I was afraid I\u2019d be first to fire in that situation.&#160; I gave them about three alternatives, and the one they picked was a win-win for both me and the school.&#160; (See prior post)<\/li>\n<li>In matter what position you are given, pretend that it WAS your idea, embrace it full heartedly and find a way to shine.&#160; Remember that it\u2019s only 9 months out of your life, and that they will go long before you \u2013 that works really well at my school the longest we\u2019ve had a principal is 4 years.&#160; In the meantime, polish your resume and network just in case they don\u2019t go away.<\/li>\n<li>Last but most important, always make them think it was their idea.&#160; Don\u2019t every worry about ownership.&#160; In fact, that\u2019s clicker training 101 \u2013 positively reinforce them for stealing your ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Alfred Thompson \u2013 I swear most of my blog posts come from his ideas.&#160; Makes writing SO much easier. So here\u2019s my rules for getting your own way when it comes to teaching. Remember that being a quiet drop of water on rock will get you farther than if you rant and rave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}