- As a Supt. you have to be who you are. You don't hunt a Supt. job, it finds you. -S.Compton #edchat
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- As a Supt. you have to realize it's not about you. It's about what's best for kids. #edchat
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- Learn everything you can learn, touch everything you can touch, in order to learn to prepare you for educational leadership.-K.Adams #edchat
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- I've always believed I should always take the most difficult and challenging job. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- As a Supt. The job is everything I thought it would be. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- As a Supt. I wanted to work for people who were champions for children of poverty. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Smooth transitions are caused from asking hard questions but dealing in reality. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Bringing people together behind good marketing, successful issues and community revitalization will yield success. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- When you take into account all the circumstances poverty brings, we have new challenges to uncover. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- What do you do when your staff population doesn't reflect your student population? #edchat
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- We're going to find the best candidate, we don't believe the best candidate is white. We actively recruit BEST teachers -S.Compton #edchat
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- Kids need role models of people who look like them. -S.Compton #edchat
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- I feel like people have less ownership of their pub schools because so many affluent dist send kids to private schools. -M.Chappelow #edchat
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- When I have a challenge I like to look at what are my chances for success -M.Chappelow #edchat
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- If we don't get more people going into education, we are in trouble, we are losing all the valuable candidates. -M.Chappelow #edchat
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- When we look to hire we evaluate learning potential and cultural sensitivity -K.Adams #edchat
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- The most important job in a school district is HR, putting the right people in the right places. -S.Compton #edchat
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- As a Supt. surround yourself with people who are smarter than you, my uncle said that wouldn't be hard for me. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Have a mind to understand, try to touch everything in your dist, work in a small district when starting out to learn more. -K.Adams #edchat
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- Learn to ask the right kind of questions and rely on your experience -K.Adams #edchat
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- Ed. Leadership: Ask more questions than trying to come to your own conclusions. -K.Adams #edchat
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- As a Supt, I'm not the keeper of all the knowledge. I get good at asking a lot of questions. S.Compton #edchat
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- If you hire thoroughbreds, you need to let them be thoroughbreds. It takes talent to manage talent. -S.Compton #edchat
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- As a Supt. You are making decisions that are connected. You can't make a decision in a silo. M.Chappelow #edchat
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- As a Supt. we need to connect with the work by helping with teacher evaluation and supporting building principals -S.Compton #edchat
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- As Supt we GET what the priority is when we are in the classroom supporting teachers -S.Compton #edchat
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- As Supt. I think our role needs to be supporting building principals, we are in a service industry. -K.Adams #edchat
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- School site is the important place, the classroom is the most important place. -K.Adams #edchat
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- Central office should be called the "campus support center" -S. Lawrence #edchat
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- As a Supt. my value to you is to support you and help you get the job done. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Some of the decisions that were made were not popular, that's leadership. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Push-back and criticism are part of leadership -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- Kids deserve the very best. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- We have an obligation as administrators to help struggling teachers. Troops notice how the generals treat the wounded. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- What "red lights" have you had to run in your tenure in ed leaderhsip? #edchat
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- I really don't think you can lead without running every red light. -K.Adams #edchat
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- Don't see as red lights, every decision "what needs to happen to align our work so they can be who they want to be."-S.Compton #edchat
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- They might need to be a nurse, they might need to be a brain surgeon not every one needs to be a principal or a teacher. -S.Compton #edchat
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- Sometimes good is not good enough, we need great. -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- We need OUTSTANDING leaders, teachers, and staff for the value of our children's lives -S.Lawrence #edchat
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- As a Supt. I over-invest in my school board. -S.Lawrence #edchat #cpchat
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- I have a preference to work with intelligent people. -S.Lawrence #edchat #cpchat
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- Supt.: Never take a job when it's a 4-3 vote. You need unanimous support. -K.Adams #edchat #cpchat
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- Supt: board meeting takes an hour, that's too long, I've been communicating about whats going on, they should know -K.Adams #edchat #cpchat
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- I was told elected boards don't work, it must be your job to communicate with your board, then it will. -K.Adams #edchat #cpchat
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- Were reculturing what we are doing. Good can be the enemy of great. -M. Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
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- When you hire good people there is a mass of people asking: "why do we do it that way?"-M.Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
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- We're growing, we are getting less money through AV, there's the crunch in education -M.Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
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- When a district loses trust, you have to gain it back, it's emotional process -M.Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
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- I like to plant seeds, things don't more fast in education. -M.Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
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- Having an attitude of proactively planning for the future is my key to success. -M.Chappelow #edchat #cpchat
Reading back through these statements I try to grasp exactly what happened tonight. I want to say I think the 25 students that to the opportunity to meet, question, and learn form these amazing leaders have changed permanently. We learned valuable lessons, but I think more than anything, we learned about hope. Hope for a greater education for the next generation. We were blessed to have this opportunity to learn from such AMAZING leaders and get a small glimpse of what being a true leader means.
Some of my favorite comments from tonight include:
Learn everything you can learn, touch everything you can touch, in order to learn to prepare you for educational leadership.-K.Adams
As an aspiring administrator this validated my path and reminded me that there is no bad learning experience, there is always something I can learn and take away.
Sometimes good is not good enough, we need great. -S.Lawrence
I think about this everyday. That lesson that I did last year is not good enough for my kids this year. I need to improve what I do everyday. One of my favorite quotes is "Never let good stand in the way of being great."
When I have a challenge I like to look at what are my chances for success -M.Chappelow
This goes back to my blog post on solving problems in schools. Every time I'm faced with an obstacle the bottom-line to accomplishing the task at hand is in your perception of the obstacle. Is it a problem that requires a solution, a constraint that I will have to live with moving forward, or an opportunity to improve the organization. I will always consider an obstacle as an opportunity to learn, grow, and get better at what I do everyday.
If you hire thoroughbreds, you need to let them be thoroughbreds. It takes talent to manage talent. -S.Compton
WOW! Powerful statement. If we hire great teachers, how can we as educational leaders inspire, motivate and support them to be all that they can be (do I have to pay Army for that statement?)? I love this quote because it shows the importance of human resources and the role it plays on the development of a great school.
FInally, I leave you with a GREAT song/video, thank you to Dr. Lawrence who mentioned it tonight.
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