Victor Simon III

Proud to serve Gower School District 62 as Superintendent of Schools. Children at their Best! Follow or visit our official public account @GowerTweet

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@ISBEnews @MolineCVSchools @bprybil It was 96.6%

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@ISBEnews @MolineCVSchools Wait until you see their response rate - along with a number of the schools in Moline - THIS year!!! 🤯 @bprybil

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Illinois’ 5Essentials Survey https://t.co/nVdJsn0QkS

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@drkevinbrussell @troy30c @TerriBresnahan @npolyak @DougWernet Right back at you 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

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@IHeartCKH Relationships or Bust

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@DrPeteSullivan 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼
There sure is a a good degree of ‘all hat no cattle’ out there. ‘All fluff no stuff’🤢 Lots of heroes go about making the necessary and transformative change without the followers and likes… Stay Humble and Hungry or Bust!

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@ISBEnews @GowerTweet It’s a choice to actively question and challenge the status quo or be complicit with/accepting of the outcomes. This ain’t a dress rehearsal! ‘Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.’ @UCHICAGOImpact 👏🏼🙏🏼❤️🍎💯

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…and ANOTHER 🧡😡 🙏🏼💚🤍🙏🏼 It’s been #Enough for decades and we STILL debate sensible prevention strategies at the highest levels. #EndGunViolence @Everytown

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@H_Penuelas Perfectly Believable! Let’s keep expanding the network! To those whom much is given… Current State -> Future State

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@PdaleSD @FredRogersInst @GowerTweet As we’ve seen first hand, for years now, ‘Community Issues Require Community Responses’. Glad to help. Good work @dpalzet 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

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With this year’s official #TeacherAppreciationWeek coming to a close, I encourage you to join me in an ongoing career effort to keep the ‘T’ in Teacher capitalized ALL 👏🏼 YEAR 👏🏼 ROUND 👏🏼 - What they do matters… A lot!!! 🙏🏼🍎💚💙💯 @IHeartCKH @DuPageROE #BeWhatYouWantToSee

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Happy to have taken part in the panel session; On the Ground: Local Leaders Discuss the ‘Whys and Hows’ of Spending COVID Aid - Man, these last couple of years have really shown that it’s those whys and hows that matter! 👍🏼🙏🏼❤️ Proud to tell a part of the @GowerTweet story…

[Illinois State Board of Education @ISBEnews]

ISBE joined @EdWriters for a workshop to help reporters write stories about how local school districts and the state are spending federal relief funds. Check out what you missed at: https://t.co/1HdZZW2rVB.

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You’re most welcome! 👍🏼 Wow! That last line sure rings true as of late: ‘Facing adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it. This is true for individuals, and the last couple of years have certainly proven this to be true at the organizational level as well.’ 👏🏼❤️💯

[IASA @IllinoisASA]

Thank you to everyone who submitted or contributed to stories this month! Lots of good content. In you inbox now!

@AvocaOsburn
@ralgri3 @DRobertson7474 @docclark05 @SuptLeak @MrsWarnecke @MadMcCune_IL
@ILSchoolLawyer @drorzel @ChadPWatkins @region9cc @drvsimon @PeoriaROE48

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@nbeglen We’ll vet the resource a bit first, but I do have familiarity with the site and message. A very close to home topic for me. I wonder if #BeSMART ever thought about a collab with @Everytown or @MomsDemand 🤔 Lots of separate sets of resources out there… 🧡

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@nbeglen We sure do support and promote common sense messages like the one you’ll find here https://t.co/b3pGyrxTHI We’re in this Together. If I’ve said this once, I’ve said it a thousand times: Community Problems Require Community Solutions 🧡🧡🧡

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🤔 When a nationwide viral post results in some families keeping kids home because they fear for their safety, we need to elevate the importance of messages like #BeSMART (Secure, Model, Ask, Recognize, Tell) - We’re in this Together!👍🏼 Check it out here: https://t.co/BbMA62l1qa

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The idea of ‘peeking around the corner’ to get a sense of ‘what’s next’ as a function of organizational learning and leadership is something @learningcounsel explores on the regular😊 I enjoyed collaborating👍🏼https://t.co/LVt1WjBjOB

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@PorterSup205 @Ejukator So true! It’s about deliberate and systemic effort. Chart Your Course! Be vigilant at the org level - “Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results that you get.”

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@PorterSup205 @DrJohnGreenan With Compass launched, ‘emerging stronger’ and ‘making lasting change’ aren’t just platitudes - they are the likely outcomes of a deliberate approach that puts (and keeps) Relationships First! Bravo! 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

What we do matters!
- “This ain’t no dress rehearsal!” 💯❤️🙏🏼

[Gower School District 62 @GowerTweet]

Hey! This is what we would call a ‘Good Thing’ in Gower! Great message about leadership and how this framework applies to Teachers (Yes, the ‘T’ is always capitalized in Teacher)😉👏🏼💙💚