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Dec 29, 2021

George Guy Jr George Guy’s “why” is empowerment through equity.  George works to create more access and greater opportunities within public PreK-12 spaces as an equity consultant with the Foundation for Educational Administration.  

He is also principal of the Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.  

 

Show Highlights

  • Cast a wider scope of criteria currently in place for equitable change. 
  • Leverage teacher voices by co constructing with them is critical.
  • The highest level of mathematics indicates your level of success. 
  • Detrack your students to provide access to open doors.
  • Increase parental understanding for initiatives with a virtual model for families. 
  • Changing staff mindsets begins with early adapters and promoting external resources. 
  • Equity in Action Academy provides four lenses using qualitative data systemic in nature.
  • Culturally responsive practices for districts and leaders at www.njspa.org.

 

“When you see people and you don't look at their deficit, but you look at their capacity and you empower them to be creators around their level of agency. The Ruckus Making that you are doing will be lifelong.”

-George Guy Jr.

 

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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.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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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Dec 22, 2021

Clement Townsend is a former journalist who spent 17 years on TV and told more than 1,000 stories. He now teaches youth how to use their voice and video to tell impactful stories with authenticity and creativity. He has a proven record of teaching youth with a fun and robust program. In addition to learning journalism participants develop in demand skills that can benefit them in any career field they choose.

Now more than ever youth need 21st century skills that can set them up for success in life. If you can click a mouse you can teach your students video journalism. Enrollment is limited so he can ensure teacher satisfaction and student success.

Show Highlights

  • Be an “Inform impactor” with this framework.
  • Tips for becoming a broadcasting star.
  • Meaningful media to inform, inspire, and impact student’s lives.
  • Everybody needs these communication skills.
  • How to take a relevant idea and create tangible outcomes?
  • Valuable, employable, life skills that unlock doors of opportunity.
  • Master the predominant form of communication.
  • Bridge the gap to establish student voice with a FREE download.
  • Broadcasting Career Mentor Program. 

 

“Having students understand the creativity aspect, the outlet to express themselves, to talk about the positive things they see happening in their community or specifically for your audience. Allowing students to showcase the positive things happening in their school with video. It's about really allowing students to connect with their learning, to their everyday life, really trying to bridge the gap.”

-Clement Townsend

 

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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.

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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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Dec 15, 2021

Julie Warner is an education writer and national and international consultant with a specific focus on educational technology and teacher wellness. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University and worked as a secondary teacher and college professor before stints as an Education Policy Advisor in the U.S. Senate and the White House and later overseeing the teacher issues portfolio within the U.S. Department of Education’s internal think tank. Even as she’s advised on high-level policy decisions in education, she’s always stayed close to the classroom: she’s a National Board Certified Teacher and has published a book on teaching teens with smartphones, co-edited a book on teaching with technology, published several recent articles on classroom teaching for professional journals for teachers, and is a journalist writing about innovative teaching practice. 

 

Her newest book Failure Before Success: Teachers Describe What They Learned from Mistakes brings together accounts from everyone from a world-renowned Finnish education scholar and global policy advisor to distinguished professors of education to veteran teachers with decades of experience working in the complex field of teaching to unpack the process of learning from mistakes and critical incidents in the classroom. Julie works with teachers and school leaders to support technology integration and conducts workshops on how teachers can develop a reflective practice to strengthen their teaching. 

 

Show Highlights

  • Create more belonging in your class with ease.
  • Learned how the “education sausage” is made.
  •  Failure Before Success provides practical and relevant mistakes. 
  • Ask parents these simple questions to build meaningful connections. 
  • Systemically, unhealthy expectations promote burnout and dehumanize teachers.
  • If you’re not able to get plugged into the support systems you will drown.
  • Understand the professional culture and how to connect with resources.

 

“I was having to figure out how to teach English as a second language, on-the-fly through the lens of English literature and writing. I made a ton of pedagogical mistakes along the way, and I also didn't have a sense of cultural competence to really understand how to interact with the other teachers and faculty. 

-Dr Julie Warner

 

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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.

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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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Dec 8, 2021

Claire Yvonne Naisbitt  is a transition pro having changed her whole life in less than 2 years. She loves deep personal work so she can serve her clients powerfully and go wherever they need and want to go. ClaireYvonne thrives in the land of duality, where we can have humor and be serious, be artistic and scientists, introverted and extroverted, celebrating and integrating our unique wholeness.

Before Coaching, Claire was a Senior Level Leader in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years, where she was responsible for leading teams to solve and deliver complex technical work. She understands the challenges of working in a fast paced, male dominated, demanding technical workplace and has always been drawn to getting the best out of people teams, as Team Lead and through organizational design.

 

Show Highlights

  • Never be stuck and bulldoze over your body.
  • First step is courage for coaching.
  • Self care is critical to success.
  • Ignore the brain and follow “gut wisdom”. 
    1. physical body's intelligence of knowing, not the head
  • Trust and tap into “Soul’s wisdom.” 
  • Don’t be a hot frog in the water.
  • Celebrate and integrate your unique wholeness.
  • Brave questions you have to ask yourself.
  • Investing in yourself is not a bill but an investment. 
  • The strongest leaders always have a great team behind them.

 

“A lot of people will realize if we empty our energy cup, we've run out for everybody else. Whereas if our cups are full, we can be there for our children or the children we're working with or anybody in our lives. For some reason society has it the other way round. If we take care of ourselves, it's selfish, but in that regard we run out of energy in our forties.”

-Claire Yvonne Naisbitt

 

Full Transcript Available   

 

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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.

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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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Dec 1, 2021

Kayla Tucker is the owner of Kayla Elease Coaching Services, LLC, a company that helps female K-12 principals to effectively manage stress and prioritize health and well being without a dependency on time management hacks, exercise, or delegation. As a school psychologist by trade with years of experience in the online wellness space, Kayla is an expert on stress management for school leaders. Using a unique framework that is founded in resilience, biology, and humanistic psychology, she helps school leaders learn how to bounce back from the day-to-day demands with ease while keeping personal sustainability at the forefront.

 

Show Highlights

  • Overcome negative impact on leadership and educators mental health.
  • The biggest myth school leaders believe about the work.
  • Inventory questions leaders need to ask. 
  • Notice and act on your interest, insights and reflection.
  • Unspoken culture code in education.
  • SUCCESS in 3 MONTHS! A service for Women in Leadership.
  • Lead and leverage live video content. 
  • Framework to keep Longevity in Mind with “Why and What if.”
  • Make your educators and team crisis and future proof with this framework. 

 

“The most important thing I often tell myself is that we only have things to give when we have enough to give.”

-Kayla Tucker

Full Transcript is Available on the BLBS Website 

 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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.

 

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a “Fitbit for teachers” that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

 

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.

 

Copyright © 2021 Twelve Practices LLC

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