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Dr Shira Lewibowitz is a dynamic educator, author and entrepreneur, Shira is CEO and founder of both Revabilities and Discovery Village. Rev Abilities is a Professional Learning Academy helping educational business owners and directors bring their vision for learning to life so they can increase their income and improve the lives of their students. Discovery Village is a premier project and play based childcare center and preschool located in Tarrytown, NY. Shira is co-author of The Coach Approach To School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness. Her upcoming book, to be published summer 2022, is titled Havens of Hope: Ideas for Redesigning Education From The COVID-19 Pandemic.

Shira holds a Ph.D in Education and is an experienced school leader who served for 20 years as a principal of nursery through eighth grade independent schools in the greater New York City area. She is a faculty member in the doctoral program of education at Northeastern University; co-author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness; a national faculty member for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development; and a leader of professional development for educators. Shira has been working with childcare centers regionally and nationally on how to navigate the health, financial, and educational challenges facing early childhood centers in the age of COVID-19. Throughout it educational programs have not only navigated through but have become dramatically better. At Revabilities, Shira shares the insights and inspiration that sparked their success.

Show Highlights

• Turn devastation into hope by going off script to create an oasis for learning grounded on the wellbeing of your community.

• The highway to happiness protocol for curiosity and exploration to flip the magic "up" where kids need it most.

• Insights when countering the negative, LOUD story of what goes on in education with hope and positivity.
• Teaching children to play and explore within the constraints of any environment is the necessary path.

• Overcome the two simultaneous narratives to every crisis to ensure your team comes out stronger.

• Examples on how to get teachers and parents comfortable with the evolution of change happening daily in education and the uniqueness of your school.

• Approach creativity in your leadership and switch your mindset from a matter of "if" to a matter of "how.

"When we say there is no other choice than to figure it out and to be present for our students, we do that. Figuring things out requires us to level up in ways that are profoundly uncomfortable and stretch ourselves in ways that, frankly, education doesn't support."

-Dr Shira Lewibowitz

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