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Jan 27, 2021

Emily Alexander is a Partner at Thomas, Alexander, Forrester & Sorensen LLP, a law firm in Venice, CA.  She also has served as the Board Chair at New Roads School for the last 6 years. New Roads is an independent school in Los Angeles dedicated to authentic diversity and inclusion.

Show Highlights

  • Build true authentically diverse and inclusive schools 
  • Navigate the unknown with courage to embark on what is best
  • Yield the power of silence and find your authentic voice
  • Create “Meaningful Access” not just on paper, but actually in how you live and education.
  • Process the way men and women communicate
  • Tips for women in leadership to expand awareness 
  • Avoid the old-fashioned dream of diversity
  • Build a robust professional development program for your faculty 

 

“I think we're lucky to have a community that believes that diverse, true diversity is not just a moral good, but an educational imperative. There's a lot of research now about how diverse groups make better decisions and companies. It's now that research is now starting to include educational settings.” 

-Emily Alexander

 

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SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

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Jan 13, 2021

Would you start a business with someone you’ve only met in person once and talked to for about 5 minutes?

Spotlight Trust co-founders Lisa Lambert of Rule Number Six and Rick Kitagawa of Kaiju Coaching did. That’s the power of trust.

Lisa and Rick first met while working remotely as leadership coaches (later head coaches) in Seth Godin’s altMBA. They had the chance to very briefly meet in-person in New York City, but collaborating on Spotlight Trust wasn’t even a seed of an idea at the time.

They later had the chance to work more closely together (remotely) on several initiatives within the Akimbo Workshops and recognized the value in uniting each other’s different perspectives and experiences to tackle a recurring theme in both their paths and one that felt more important than ever: trust. 

Bringing deep leadership experience in their own respective fields and having coached thousands of leaders around the world independently as well as through the altMBA other Akimbo Workshops, Lisa and Rick took the leap to co-found Spotlight Trust in late 2019. Spotlight Trust combines their forces and insights to bring a practical framework for developing trust to leaders and the organizations and communities that rely on those leaders.

Rick Kitagawa brings his creative entrepreneurial background, out-of-the-box thinking, and executive coaching experience and mixes it with his experience of teaching and designing curricula at the university level to the Spotlight Trust.  His ability to unlock the leadership potential in people is only matched by his open mind, his flair for the dramatic, and his love of monsters and mythical creatures.

Lisa Lambert  brings her experience leading special projects and strategic communications on the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation as well as her award-winning facilitation skills to Spotlight Trust. Her ability to navigate complexity, catalyze collaboration, and transform organizations is only matched by her thoughtfulness, her passion for adventure, and love for her two puppers, Bebop and Rocksteady.



Show Highlights

  • Measuring Trust and the importance of belonging
  • Avoid thinking your building trust and other pitfalls
  • Trust Framework: Five facets of trust in 3D
  • Uncertain times reveals your leadership and provides opportunities to co-create the future
  • Know the difference between checking in and checking up on people
  • Spotlight Trust future proofs your organization. 
  • Questions behind the questions illuminate what you need to be working on at a very practical, measurable level. 

 

“There's a lot of leaders that are maybe centering around a norm of politeness that's getting in the way from having these really important conversations around a shared purpose. Around where we're seeking to go together.  I would really encourage the leaders. It's not about being polite, it's about being kind, and that kind comes in being direct, being respectful, but sharing that feedback with others, engaging in those conversations, and building that path pathway forward together, and also being really gracious and receiving feedback.”

-Lisa Lambert



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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

 

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Jan 6, 2021

Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD, is a career educational activist with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students.

She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State. With a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate degree in educational leadership, she has an extensive understanding of the components needed to transform the education system.

Dr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education and has served as head of school and principal internationally in countries such as Kuwait, Hungary, and Ecuador. Weaving in a strong emphasis on service and leadership at each school, she has been an educational change agent across the globe. And now as founder of Education Evolution, she aims to disrupt the education climate as we know it to help ensure each child is seen, heard and valued and met where they are academically, socially and emotionally. 

 

Show Highlights

  • Mental health must trump any academic gains this year 
  • Benefits and challenges of running a micro-school 
  • How to avoid copping out when the shoe doesn’t fit your school
  • Kindred spirits are your windows of opportunity. Find them, make it official and support them despite uncomfortable colleagues. 
  • Valuing outcomes and not requirements
  •  Indicators that determine if students are thriving and not surviving

 

“Our kids are not thriving. And what's the purpose of high school? What's the purpose of school at all, if we're not loving up these kids and then if they're not going out and thriving and loving up the world. We're seeing more hate crimes or seeing more serial murders. School could be a part of helping kids thrive and it's not happening often enough.

Being human is one of the best gifts we can give our teachers and it gives them permission to be human too.”

-Maureen O'Shaughnessy  

 

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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

 

ORGANIZED BINDER

  • Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
  • Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
  • Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
  • Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

 

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile



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