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Back to EpisodesExperimenting with Micro Administrator Roles
Description
Dr. Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education.
Show Highlights
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innovative ideas to do with your leadership team in designing the future of your school.
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Micro leadership tiered systems grow leaders to operate as a whole system.
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Determining what is most valuable within the school day.
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Avoid personal time that gets invaded to do this minutia of school.
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RACI model of decision making provides clear and informed responsibility.
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Solving a thorny problem with an experimental mindset is more manageable than solving a problem with a permanent mindset.
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Dr Amy shares how the Principal Success Path was transformative for her organization, period.
"'Many leaders are scared about developing people and then having them leave, they should be more worried about not developing people and having them stay.' I originally became obsessed with this idea of developing people in leadership capacities in particular, and what that meant with respect to distributive leadership. I've tried all sorts of things over time. When I came into this role as head of school, it was me and then lots and lots of people under me. And I've thought really hard about how we created a tiered system."
-Dr. Amy Platt
"I'm just trying to take great ideas and stretch them as best I can to make the greatest impact on student learning and faculty culture. And maybe actually that's what being a Ruckus Maker is. I don't know. So I think what I'm doing and thinking about things sort of innovatively and differently is really just continuing to refine the ideas of distributive leadership that were presented to me over a decade ago when I first took my principal's qualification courses in Ontario."
-Dr. Amy Platt
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