Episode Details

Dr. Steven Weber is the Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning. He brings more than 20 years of experience to the district having previously served as the Executive Director for Curriculum and Instruction with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC). During his career, he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director of secondary, and executive director of curriculum and instruction. Weber's professional experience includes serving as a curriculum director with the Arkansas Department of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Weber serves on the Executive Cabinet for Fayetteville Public Schools and provides leadership by working with teachers, administrators, and staff. He works with teachers from each of the district's sixteen schools to review programs, develop curriculum, and analyze district inputs and outputs. Weber leads the Office of Teaching and Learning and works with building principals to support continuous improvement. His areas of leadership include academic achievement, instructional strategies, formative assessment, leadership development, professional learning, continuous improvement, and collaborating with families to support students.

Show Highlights

• Burning a bridge with a parent helped to create strategies to build empathy and respect with people we don't agree with.
• Tips to navigate the turbulent waters between confidence and the imposter syndrome.
• Leadership is about customer service.
• Prioritize dialogue and conversation over conflict and disrespect when facing highly energized people.
• Steven's instructional leadership program that builds a pipeline for leaders.
• Schools are in a service industry. Make sure your first touch point is a welcoming experience.
• The message you need to remember when communicating to an audience.

"As a community, we should embrace our schools, embrace our teachers and our principals. We should embrace the positive impact that a school can have on a community. We don't need to destroy our schools through public rhetoric, but we do need to have conversation and dialogue. And that dialogue is hard to have at a school board meeting, which is only designed for public comments."

-Steven Weber

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