Episode Details

• How Eric Taught a student to write a better email.
• Write better emails
• How to prioritize problems.
• Keeping a focus
• What’s keeping you from focusing on your 1 thing in your school?
• 1 thing: getting into classrooms.
• Master schedule -
• Is this even in the top ten list?
• Got into his 1 thing within a month every year.
• Priorities - getting prepared for state testing, getting prepared for next year’s scheduling, graduation, staffing for next year.
• Are your priorities your todo list?
• Big idea behind state testing
  • reflect the efforts of our kids
• What makes or breaks a great school.
• Why isn’t your past experiences translating to the current situation.
• Graduation rate was 85%, wasn’t meeting our goals.
• Goal of learning 1 thing each day.
• I’ve learned something new every day.
• What is the 1 thing that if you
• What was most valuable? Reframing how I prioritize

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