Dan Kalbfliesh

Current Superintendent of Schools,TCIS trainer, Restorative Justice,and TIC Champion certified. tweets are my own

[Timothy Backus @AsstSupSColonie]

Aspiring Leaders Seminar at @TechValleyHigh tonight.

Folks who want to make a jump to leadership showing up on a beautiful weather day.

@CASDA_NY

[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

Using @patricklencioni 5 Dysfunctions of a team as a vehicle to build our impact team of teacher leaders, first step is building trust through activities developed by @PeterMDeWitt in Leading with Intention

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@JohnsonValAL Thanks for your kind words!

[Dr. Valerie Johnson, NBCT @JohnsonValAL]

Learned so much about PLCs from @GreenIslandUFSD They discussed their successes, missteps, & how they addressed missteps. Really great session that highlighted how important it is to have a strong partnership from supe to principal to teachers. @DKalbfliesh @BruPott #AVL24

[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

@MikeBennett1759 One of the best places. Great reminder and message too

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@SheletteRPleat @musickate @CareerTecTweets @CapRegionBOCES Jaden is one of my favorites too

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

Our teachers utilizing the @DataWiseHarvard process and the PLC+ framework for @VisibleLearning @Dave_Nagel1 @BruPott @Kmbrly_Ross to look deeply the launch of this years literacy pods @MrsBoucheyGI @NicoleL77388907 #itsanewday

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@musickate @SheletteRPleat @CapRegionBOCES Have a great year!

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@awhawrylchak @TechValleyHigh How awesome!

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@sarahhoraczek @SCSchools @BigPicSchdy @WIECSCSD Awesome!

[Kimberly Pilla @KimberlyPilla1]

Thank you to @laurapfeijoo for an amazing session of learning! Met some wonderful leaders!

[Learning Forward @LearningForward]

Many districts fail to achieve the promise of high-quality professional learning because they operate with a “PD mindset.”

This mindset manifests in sporadic, one-time events (webinars, workshops, etc.) that are not part of a larger plan or vision.

https://t.co/4RIngQRyMC

[Green Island UFSD - Heatly School @GreenIslandUFSD]

Representing Heatly at the Village of Green Island Memorial Day Parade🇺🇸 #HeatlyPride #ProudToBeAHornet 💚

[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

@MrsBoucheyGI 🤔

[Mrs. Ford @MrsFord2525]

So proud of this team for representing Green Island UFSD at the CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge @CDPHP @GreenIslandUFSD

[RIC One Data Privacy & Security @DpsRic]

Avoid malware and don't make your computer sick! #dataprotection #cybersecuritytips

[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

So great to be apart of elevating student voices as a region, thank you @CapRegionBOCES for hosting a powerful event and @M_Arterberry for delivering a killer speech #studentvoicesmatter @GreenIslandUFSD represented themselves well

[Dan Kalbfliesh @DKalbfliesh]

Thank you @psychshauna and @HerronCyndi @QuestarIIISPED for hosting a phenomenal PD on the science of reading #sharpenthesaw

[RIC One Data Privacy & Security @DpsRic]

Thank you all for participating in “The #RICone DPIT” session!
We can’t wait to see the v4.2.