Episode Details

Rachel Brown is a Curriculum, Instruction, & Professional Growth Strategist for Douglas County School District.

• Power in the missed opportunities
• You have the power of leading culture in your building.
• Even the opportunity of saying hello to a kid is really powerful.
• Each teacher had to own making a positive interaction with each child.
• When things were going unsaid, they festered
• Confronting with Kindness
• the things you don’t say could have a big impact on the climate and culture.
• Emotional intelligence - Elena Aguilar work on the art of coaching teams.
• Have to get rid of your ego, go in in a way that you open yourself up like a book.
• Buy the Communication Cards
• We didn’t do our best work.
• Kids couldn’t tell who was the principal
• New principal was very communicative and it changed the culture.
• How to be a transformative principal? This is a rough time for some kids and you can take the time to be an impactful person and not miss the opportunity to make a little adjustment to make your school feel like the safest home for those kids.

Turmoil with change in leadership because of lack of communication and emotional intelligence. * Talking with team about how to make things better. * People coming to say

• Lost sight of standards - using the standards as our base.
• student centered coaching - to try to come
• http://calendly.com/jethro-jones/transformative-principal-interview
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best
• http://www.jethrojones.com/presentations
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