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Paige Kinnard: Scaling impact from 1 to 100,000
For over 25 years, Paige Kinnaird has been a leader in the education space, from advocating for early childhood education to supporting educators and school leaders improvement in their own professional practices. Her greatest joy comes from contributing in a manner...
10 Unconventional Leadership in Education Quotes
The purpose of this post is two fold: Principals and other local school leaders can use these quotes to meditate on or challenge themselves to grow as a leader.Use these school leadership quotes to inspire your staff. You’re a Catalyst “It’s not the people doing the...
Rich Milner: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity gaps, and Teaching in today’s Classrooms
Richard Milner IV is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. He has secondary appointments in Peabody’s Department of Leadership, Policy...
4 Things I Learned from Orly Friedman
Orly Friedman was Danny’s guest on a bonus podcast episode. She is the founder of the Red Bridge school in San Francisco. You can listen to our conversation, read the show notes, and get links to all the resources she mentioned here. Below are 4 things I learned from...
Bonus: Tracey Benson: Introducing the Anti-Racist Leadership Institute
Tracey A. Benson, Ed.L.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal. Dr. Benson received his Ed.L.D. in...
Eric Adams: Healthy Eating in Schools
Eric Leroy Adams was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on September 1, 1960, the fourth of six children for his mother Dorothy, a house cleaner and cook, and his father Leroy, a butcher. Growing up in a working-class household in South Jamaica, Queens,...
Mastermind Case Study: Shbrone Brookings
Principal @ Ralph Downs Elementary “After joining the mastermind, I instantly possess an attainable network of global resources.” Tell us what you do and what your work typically entails. I’m an elementary principal in Oklahoma City that gets the opportunity to create...
4 Reasons Why Limiting Your Candid Feedback Sabotages Your Progress
If you’re an educational leader, you’re probably not using candid feedback as often or as well as you should be. That’s as candid as we can be about it. And, mostly, it’s not your fault. Candor is a skill. It takes practice. It requires training. And, it’s not...
Jethro Jones: Designing a Transformative School
Jethro Jones, 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, is a former principal in Fairbanks, Alaska, and host of Transformative Principal, where he interviews principals, leaders, and influencers who help improve K-12 education throughout the world. He is also the...
