The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠
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Our greatest asset is the collaborative team, period. Rather than pick at their shortcomings or vulnerabilities, build on their talents and strengths. If you do, I can guarantee that you will be very satisfied, even elated, with the results.
Agree Bill! Honestly, I don’t believe the PLC process will ever reach its full potential until we acknowledge that we have to coach the PLC process. All the research shows teams need coaching in the settings where they work. Unfortunately, our actions do not reflect what we know.
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.” - @Trevornoah
A lot of what is being called coaching is really support, encouragement, or mentoring. Coaching is more; it changes practice. The other stuff is good and makes us “feel” better, but coaching makes us “do” better. If you want your teams to excel, you gotta coach ‘em up!
As background, I write this as a teacher, a school leader, and a parent of a teenager in eighth grade. I’ve learned a few things over these nine+ months about what’s important to communicate and which methods seem to work better fo…https://t.co/Sk6al7YUaG https://t.co/9QPJ9YzxHY
Took me 9 years to earn my doctorate, working and mothering full time start-to-finish. Cannot deliver babies, true. Can nurture leaders, though.
Every woman with a doctorate, make sure that Dr. title is in your display name today.
You earned it, @DrBiden.
The Just ASK Team has new and updated articles to support our colleagues who are tasked during the 2020-2021 school year with creating positive and productive learning experiences from a distance and/or in hybrid environments, https://t.co/jshbk4D5wV
Lots of learning going on today from our amazing iCoach @sclegg33! Thanks for getting everyone ready to use the Neat Bar in the classrooms when students come back next week! It takes a team, and we have the best! #inspire96