While completing my educational leadership studies several years ago, I got tired of hearing about creating a "vision" for your school. Real tired. Now that I am an administrator...I can't stop thinking about my vision for our school. In Dave Burgess' best-selling book, Teach Like a Pirate , he details an exercise that encourages teachers to write about how their class is viewed by students. Change the topic to the broader topic of school and this experience can be equally as telling and inspiring to administrators. When I walk through the doors of Check Elementary School, I feel safe and accepted. Learning is fun at CES and most days I don't even know that I am learning standardized content because the teachers do such a great job of crafting engaging lessons. Their passion for learning is obvious and so contagious it has infected the entire atmosphere surrounding our school. I wake up excited to come to school and see what exciting projec...