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Byron Darnall is the principal of Potter Gray Elementary School in Bowling Green Kentucky

• Long term sustainable change is slow.
• How do you improve something that is already successful?
• Examine the student experience.
• Who’s school is it?
• As educators we tend to operate from the center.
• Busyness is the disease of our time.
• How are you? Busy! <-bothersome
• “I would love to, but I’m too busy.“
• Am I too busy to get better?
• How to be less busy?
• Every day shouldn’t lead to absolute exhaustion.
• There is nothing easy about it, but we have to be open to finding someone we trust to give us good feedback about our time management
• Systems thinking - not exposed to it as a teacher or
• Centralize school-wide communication through a blog. If it matters, it is on the blog.
• If it can’t be said in 1-2 sentences, it’s a conversation.
• How to be a transformative principal? Talk to your students and ask them questions.

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