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Prevailing, Not Relishing with Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter Transformative Principal 195

Proactive paranoia is good paranoia Call people to the carpet in a professional way.

Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter are the authors of Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank: How to Prevail When Others Want To See You Drown.

• How to prevail instead of getting bummed out.
• Depersonalize the situation.
• Some reason they have ego, fear, jealousy, etc.
• Didn’t start with you, started with someone or something else.
• Alignments - aligning to different people.
• How people gather allies.
• If you’ve got an army behind you.
• Moving on
• How to deal with politicking.
• Nonviolent communication
• Call people to the carpet in a professional way.
• 4 step process for nonviolent conversation.
• Script, rehearse, prepared for curveball reactions
• Said with care and patience.
• Don’t want to be alone without a witness.
• You’re not effective if you’re feeling this way.
• Teacher Bullies
• How to be a transformative principal? It comes down to being willing to do what is right.
• How to be a transformative principal? You’ve gotta try!

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