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Invitation Only Parent Teacher Conferences with Jay Posick Transformative Principal 254

Social Media: If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!

Jay Posick is principal of Merton Intermediate school in Merton Wisconsin

• How our culture came to be here in Merton.
• Weekly nuts and bolts emails “Good Morning Merton Family“
• Take care of kids…
• Connect with people face to face.
• There aren’t silver bullets.
• Get out of your office.
• If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!
• 3 all-staff meetings each year that I’m in charge of.
• First agenda item on grade level meetings is kids.
• There are times as educators where we focus more on the negative than on the positive
• Recognize kids that are going above and beyond.
• Be kind, be safe, do your job.
• Good news call of the day. #mertonproud
• Finding ways to recognize kids.
• Find a way for teachers to share more with others.
• Mark French came up with the idea.
• Have a positive phone call at the end of the week.
• Ordinary to you, amazing to everyone else.
• Invitation only conferences
• Pat on the back or a kick in the butt!
• Building Leadership Team.
• More on invitation only conferences.
• Great things, challenges, great things.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get out of your office!

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