James A. Bailey

Dr. James Bailey’s career has encompassed teacher, principal, school turnaround, principal consultant and superintendent roles. His deep-seated commitment to equity and supporting school leaders led to him training as an executive coach and founding the DailySEL.com a consulting firm focused on supporting leaders’ SEL based on a recently published book from Corwin Press called The Daily SEL Leader: A Guided Journal with co-author Randy Weiner. James has a PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation and has served on the faculty of Walden University since 2015 in educational leadership. 

Improving Self-Management Bit by Bit

Editor’s Note: This month’s column is the first of two to explore Self-Management. According to a 2020 article on npr.org,…

2 years ago

Understanding Self-Awareness and Impulses

In last month’s column, we explored some of the misconceptions surrounding self-awareness- an essential skill for today’s leaders, especially in…

2 years ago

Avoiding the Self-Awareness Trap

Continuing our series on adult SEL, Over the next two months, we’ll address self-awareness. Self-awareness is a skill most of…

3 years ago

Teacher SEL-Separating The Canary from the Coal Mine

Welcome to our new column on adult social-emotional learning! Over the next 12 months, we’ll focus on how school leaders…

3 years ago