Published Works
OAESA - Principal navigator WINTER 2023
President’s Messsage:
It’s Okay to Look Forward
Do You Even Like Your Teachers?
(Do They Know That?)
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
Do you even LIKE your teachers?!?!" I heard myself asking a principal from another state that exact question while I was attending a national conference last school year. I didn't mean to say it. I had not planned on saying it. It just came out.
OAESA - Principal navigator FALL 2022
Remember the Fun!
Reflective, practical steps to focus your year on all that is good
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
The role of an educator is awesome for many reasons: it is meaningful, it is inspiring, and it is invigorating. Being an educator is also fun. It is fun! When we surrender ourselves to the joy that lives in our classrooms, hallways, and schools, we remember the fun.
OAESA - Principal navigator Winter 2021
What Is Learning?
Redesigning our schools to meet the needs of students, staff amidst a global pandemic
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
What an awesome time we live in. What an awesome time we teach in. What an amazing opportunity we have to change the scope of education in remarkable and impactful wars.
OAESA - Principal navigator FALL 2020
This Is Our Time
Educators have a chance to make real change this year
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
“I sure can’t wait for things to get back to normal.” I have to be honest with you, I have not said that yet, because I really do not want to. If I said it, it would most certainly be a lie. Confessing that to you now almost feels like some level of betrayal, but it absolutely is the truth.
OAESA - Principal navigator Winter 2020
Elevate Yourself with Intention
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
ELEVATE WOMEN ON THE RISE CONFERENCE PRESENTER
Principals are a unique breed. We live on heavily populated islands, and we find ourselves very alone amidst the throngs of countless humans. It is perplexing to feel so alone when there is never a moment of peace or solitude, and yet, here we are each and every day.
OAESA - Principal navigator Spring 2019
OAESA Board Member Spotlight
Meet her in the middle - a conversation with OAESA Middle School Board Representative Carrie Sanchez.
OAESA - Principal navigator FALL 2018
Grow Every Day
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
For one principal, gardening provides joy, growth, lessons, and professional reflection.
OAESA - Principal navigator Spring 2018
Because It’s Very Important Work
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
I said, “Gene, seriously—you have the opportunity to be retired, to live life by your rules, to sleep when you want andplay when you want…and you choose to still do stuff like this?”
HMH / The learning Company - shaped april 2017
Leading a Model School:
How One Middle School Principal Defined Success and Then Built the Infrastructure, Community, and Staff to Sustain High Performance
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
You cannot achieve success until you define it. Success at Port Clinton Middle School is defined as: Meeting the individual needs of every student and helping every student achieve more than he or she ever thought possible.
OAESA - Principal navigator Winter 2017
Educators of a Different Class
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
When I began the chapter of my career as a school principal, I thought my role in the school was similar to that of an orchestra conductor. I needed to orchestrate the operations of the school. I needed to cue the right players at the right times to make sure things happened as they should. As it turns out, that was not how it should be at all.
OAESA - Principal navigator Spring 2015
Book Review: Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 Teaching Kids To Succeed.
BY CARRIE J. SANCHEZ
This book is a wonderful, useful, and applicable tool for all educators.
OAESA - Principal navigator Fall 2012
Highlighting a Principal
An interview with Carrie Sanchez - Principal, Port Clinton Middle School
Lead by example. Do not ever expect someone to do something or give more than I ever would myself. Set and maintain high expectations for myself above and before anyone else.