Episode Details

Crafting The Culture

Jeff Zoul, is a lifelong teacher, learner, and leader. During Jeff's distinguished career in education he has served in a variety of roles, including Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning in Illinois. Jeff also served as a teacher and coach in the State of Georgia for many years before moving into school administration. Jeff has been recognized as a local Teacher of the Year and as an outstanding principal in the State of Georgia. He is the author/co-author of more than a dozen books. Jeff has earned several degrees, including his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and his doctoral degree from the University of Alabama. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys running and has completed over a dozen marathons.

Show Highlights

• Are you a Play- It-safe Principal?
• Traditions that kill culture.
• Culture is made in micro moments of 30 seconds at a time, get the daily cultural devotional to reflection on what matters most for your community.

• Relationship building tools that transform small things into grand.

• "Start before you're ready" is the only way to make a relevant ruckus.

• Why you want to hear push back and how you create a respectful, right way, right time, right place environment.

• Innovate inside and out of the box you create for teaching.

• A dangerous measuring stick you need to create a good measuring bar for students.

• Dismantling 3 status quo operations in education that haven't met the moment.

"Relationship building. It's the small things that can mean a lot. I try my very best but It's hard, but my personal mission is to improve the life, in some small way, of every person with whom I have a meaningful interaction. That's my mission and I hope that I can do that."

-Jeff Zoul

• email: jeffzoul@gmail.com
• LinkedIn
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• Crafting the Culture

• Blog: Teach. Learn. Lead. Repeat.

• Connected.org

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