Happy National Principal’s Day!

Today is National School Principals’ Day and we wanted to extend a huge THANK YOU for your outstanding leadership during this crisis.  Your ability to motivate, inspire, care about, engage, and check on others through these obstacles has truly been inspiring and worthy of praise.  It’s always been true, but in times such as these, it’s more prevalent than […]

Game Over (Or is it?)

Are you struggling with negative thoughts during this pandemic, or are other outside influences reinforcing a feeling of incompetence? Well, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there and it’s important to persevere through those feelings and challenges. Eric Gilpin, IASP President-Elect and principal of Batchelor Middle School, shares some words of wisdom to help us […]

IASP Shared Solutions Series

Spring into Action!

Spring brings thoughts of warmer weather, first buds on trees, flowers blooming, increased sunshine and longer days.  The beauty of spring is impossible to miss.  It is a great time to help students learn the importance of protecting the beauty of our environment and engaging them in practices that demonstrate how they can have a […]

Free Webinar!

REL Midwest is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 8 from 12:00-1:00 PM CT focused on evidence-based resources and strategies available for educators teaching in a remote setting. The webinar will feature experts in the field from REL Midwest and AIR who will cover the following topics related to transitioning to remote learning: Evidence-based resources   Social […]

The Unexpected Challenges of Working from Home:

How to Build Strong Workflow Habits During the Covid-19 Quarantine and Beyond Guest Blog By Amber Harper “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.” – Stephen Covey I’ll be one of the first to admit that as much as I love what I do, doing what I love has now […]

New Teacher Support

Guest blog post by Susan Summers Everyone in education knows that the art of teaching is something that develops with time, experience, and training. Whether new teachers are coming to your building directly from student teaching or with years of service in another district, support from their administrators and the master teachers who are now […]

Digital Dynamite!

2020 Legislative Summary

The much anticipated, often imitated, but never replicated IASP Legislative Summary!  We hope you will find this final summary useful as you prepare for putting new laws, rules and procedures in place moving forward.  Feel free to contact us for further explanations. 2020 IASP Legislative Summary

Building a Home for Challenging Times

Guest Blog Post by Glenn Buechlein & Jeff Bramhall The time we are living in now is unprecedented. Our new normal is to hunker down in isolation venturing out only for essentials. This is the only time in our collective history that we’ve faced this sort of isolation. Man is, by nature, a social animal […]

E-Learning Resources

With current events challenging just about every aspect of our lives, IASP is committed to providing our members the same service, while maintaining social responsibility.  We’ve collected a variety of digital resources for you and those can be found here. We have also created a discussion board under the “Communities” in Ed Leaders Network. The […]

Coronavirus Resources for Educators