SamTastic Weekly Tip: 2/17/25 - Trust is the Key

This week’s tip: Trust is the Key

The research is clear.  You can’t improve teaching and learning without trust.

David Horsager uses decades of research and experience to show leaders how to build, maintain and even restore, trust.  We’ve brought David to four National SAM Conferences.  Each year attendees rave about their experience with David.  This year, he was keynote speaker and provided a riveting, humorous and memorable presentation.  Every attendee received a copy of his book, Trust Matters More than Ever.  If you and a member of a SAM team, and were unable to attend, you can receive a copy of his book, too.

How?  Watch his presentation in HD video, below.  Then, click this link to answer three questions and provide your mailing address.  We’ll then send you the book at no charge next week.  Why?  Because the book includes 40 tools you can use to build trust now.

Click anywhere on the video to start.   Chick here to complete the form after viewing:  https://bit.ly/4hRTZ3Q

All conference videos, 2015 to 2025, are available at this link:  https://www.samprocess.com/conference-and-workshop-materials  You are welcome to use these videos, all or in part, in PD sessions with staff and others in your school and district.

Would you like more information about David Horsager?

His company website is:  https://davidhorsager.com/

Would you like to book David for a presentation in your district? Are you interested in the Trust Certification for Educators?   Contact Dan Kerrigan dkerrigan@trustedge.com

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• Leading Successfully When Viewpoints Differ: A Set of 20-Minute Tools   https://bit.ly/NSIP_Toolkit   You are welcome to share the link with colleagues and friends.

• If you’d like to pre-pay for SAM service, and/or the conference next year, use this link to request an invoice:  https://bit.ly/40GtA33

• Jenn David Lang, the Main Idea, is offering a free, online workshop:  Don’t Lose Them!  Strategies to Retain and Re-energize Your Teachers. (March 5, 4:00 PM, Eastern) Here’s the registration link: https://forms.gle/FPswewsb5xzktd1SA 

SamTastic Weekly Tip: 2/10/25 - Focus on Your Professional Development.

This week’s tip: Focus on Your Professional Development.

The research on the SAM process makes clear the SAM Daily Meeting is key.  It is a daily professional development session where leaders not only plan their work but reflect on next steps and their impact on teaching and learning.  Great!

The annual National SAM Conference follows a similar design.  It is a much-needed boost of positivity, blending professional development, celebration and fun.  I hope the videos we release, beginning today, provide a similar boost to those unable to attend, and a happy reminder for those of us who were in Miami. As always, you are free to use the videos, all or in part, with staff and others.

Today, we have two videos to share.  The first, featuring SAM Principal Tracie Anderson Swilley, will add to your fire, passion and commitment to serve staff and students.  The second is a celebration of your work each day doing this important and life-changing work.

Click anywhere on either video to start. 

All conference videos, from 2015 to 2025, are available at this link:  https://www.samprocess.com/conference-and-workshop-materials  You are welcome to use these videos, all or in part, in PD sessions with staff and others in your school and district.

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• Leading Successfully When Viewpoints Differ: A Set of 20-Minute Tools   https://bit.ly/NSIP_Toolkit   You are welcome to share the link with colleagues and friends.

• If you’d like to pre-pay for SAM service, and/or the conference next year, use this link to request an invoice:  https://bit.ly/40GtA33

• Jenn David Lang, the Main Idea, is offering a free, online workshop:  Don’t Lose Them!  Strategies to Retain and Re-energize Your Teachers. (March 5, 4:00 PM, Eastern) Here’s the registration link: https://forms.gle/FPswewsb5xzktd1SA 

SamTastic Weekly Tip: Black History Month - 2/3/25

This week’s tip: Black History Month

What is your school doing to commemorate Black History Month?  Do teachers and students know its history and purpose?

“Black history in the United States has been a proving ground for America's ideals. A great test of these ideals came with the Civil War and the elimination of slavery. Another test came a century later, in the struggle for practical recognition of the rights already won in principle—the abolition of legalized segregation and second-class citizenship.

The foremost purpose of Black History Month is to make all Americans aware of this struggle for freedom and equal opportunity. It is also a time to celebrate the many achievements of blacks in every field, from science and the arts to politics and religion. It not only offers black Americans an occasion to explore their heritage, but it also offers all Americans an occasion and opportunity to gain a fuller perspective of the contributions of black Americans to our Nation. The American experience and character can never be fully grasped until the knowledge of black history assumes its rightful place in our schools and our scholarship.”

-President Ronald Reagan, Proclamation Establishing Black History Month, 1986

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From Bert Hendee, President NSIP Board of Directors:

Your NSIP Board of Directors’ most recent meeting was held prior to our National Conference on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.  We seated our newest board member Jennifer McCrystal.  Jennifer is a Principal in Hillsborough County, FL and has been a practicing SAM principal since 2014. Her voice and experience will be a welcome and critical one on the board. Dave Sechler was voted in as Secretary for the board. 

As we have shared with you before, the board of directors meets two times a year in person.  One meeting is held in conjunction with the National Conference and one in the summer either June or July.  Two other virtual meetings may be held each year as well.  At each meeting we have updates from each member of the board and the executive director.  Our vision,  mission, bylaws, policies and procedures are reviewed at each meeting as well.  An annual board self-evaluation is completed as well as a performance review for the executive director.  We are all educators and are passionate about this work and always working towards improvements in our performance and support of NSIP.

If you have questions please feel free to reach out to any board member at any time.  https://www.samprocess.com/team

Leading Successfully When Viewpoints Differ: A Set of 20-Minute Tools   https://bit.ly/NSIP_Toolkit   You are welcome to share the link with colleagues and friends.

If you’d like to pre-pay for SAM service, and/or the conference next year, use this link to request an invoice:  https://bit.ly/40GtA33