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You have guided our institution with such wisdom, love, and pushing us to know better and do better for so long. I am so thankful for you, and so grateful to learn from you, and grateful for your voice and leadership in this current moment.

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You are always so calm, so clear, so poised, and so loving in all that you do. Thank you for letting me learn from the work you do and the way you lead. I aspire to be more like you.

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Shoutout to you all for being absolutely hilarious!!! We definitely have some comedians on our staff at excel. Thanks for brining the joy and humor. 

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Shoutout to you all for being absolutely hilarious!!! We definitely have some comedians on our staff at excel. Thanks for brining the joy and humor. 

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Carrie, Shaamar, you have fit in so quickly, well, and mean so much. We are so much better with your leadership. It can be easy to feel intimidated or hold back, but that is not what i have experienced. I feel well-partnered and matched with you both. Thank you!

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Has made me forget the dark shadow of last year and feel hope.

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For literally everything...

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To my Dean Team - I love this work, but I think I actually love it as much as I do because I love you guys! Thank you Ben, Shaamar, and Darius for always laughing with me, not judging me when I eat 3 chocolate bars a day, enabling my coffee drinking, and being overall kind, genuine, thoughtful human beings. <3

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Jamie and Antonina (and Melissa and Nina) - thank you for holding the torch of what ILT could be when it was very difficult last year. I am so grateful to everyone for the investment this team made in the summer to be a functional, collaborative team - I feel so excited about the work ahead and so grateful you're in it with me.

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Shout out to the dean team for all of their work with attendance- following up with students and collaborating with advisors and GLT has been really great to see these past couple of weeks. It is most definitely a huge contributor to our 95%

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Grateful for: a vision of shared leadership that asks me to step up to responsibilities and ownership, and a team that holds high standards but also brings empathy and allowance for errors. Successes: students are showing up and working hard, teachers are adapting plans for remote learning and responsiveness to student needs, we all figured out how to do schedule changes, home group and whole group touchpoints are built into the weekly schedule, a balance of synchronous and asynchronous work that is feeling realistic and rigorous so far.  

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Grateful for: a vision of shared leadership that asks me to step up to responsibilities and ownership, and a team that holds high standards but also brings empathy and allowance for errors. Successes: students are showing up and working hard, teachers are adapting plans for remote learning and responsiveness to student needs, we all figured out how to do schedule changes, home group and whole group touchpoints are built into the weekly schedule, a balance of synchronous and asynchronous work that is feeling realistic and rigorous so far.  

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I feel like our school really has transformed into an online school! Teachers are so prepared, have so many good resources, it every class Ive been in it's FELT like such a good place to be, good use of time, engaging despite zoom limitations. I am grateful for the transformation that has happened.

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-Student orientations!
-Materials pick up (we thought would never happen and it did and it was beautiful)
-SCHEDULES mostly complete and mostly accurate!
-Everyone has a manager...even Carter
-We've had a bunch of people quit and the school is FINE
-Kids are so committed to being in school and learning

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Grateful that you always bring joy to every space - you always cheer me up! You also do such a good job of modeling dialogue and reflection - I'm in awe of this. I know our culture has been a subject of a lot of heated conversations, and your grace in handling those and listening but also sharing your perspective has been unparalleled. -Antonina

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To each of you who have given me feedback or support as I navigate new territory as a leader. To Nina for your email, to Sarah for stopping by the conference room and sharing your perspectives with me, to Melissa for constant support across multiple mediums :) I feel so lucky to get to absorb and learn from you all.

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Teacher ingenuity and the next generation! Kiara and Metts stepping up as leaders this year has been SO fun to see - I'm grateful to everyone who empowered them. Ash, Alexandra, Dorothy, Richard all joining with so much voice and presence in our all staff spaces. I feel so pumped about this team.

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Orientation, partnering with GLTs, growing a leadership voice and shaping the grade levels they support. I am so grateful and proud of all the deans

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Melissa - I am endlessly grateful to you for everything. You are such a thoughtful and strategic manager and I'm so grateful for the trust you have put in me in letting me take on more ownership this year. I also appreciate that you have made it feel okay to admit when I'm struggling or need support. I hope to one day be half as good a manager and leader as you are - I'll consider myself very successful if I can meet that bar! -Antonina

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I am so grateful for Antonina, Carrie, Jamie, Melissa and Laura for their unwavering support and outreach to me, on a personal level after I shared some nerve-wracking family news. Thank you all so much for the kindness and love.

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I am so grateful for the shared sense of ownership and responsibility that I have felt so viscerally from this team. I'm grateful for the decision-making that we have been able to do together with that - to feel like everyone here is eager to contribute in their own way and also share thoughts and reflections to support someone else or to contribute to a greater understanding of the issue. The shared thinking and shared action has been super meaningful to me. 

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I am so grateful for the shared sense of ownership and responsibility that I have felt so viscerally from this team. I'm grateful for the decision-making that we have been able to do together with that - to feel like everyone here is eager to contribute in their own way and also share thoughts and reflections to support someone else or to contribute to a greater understanding of the issue. The shared thinking and shared action has been super meaningful to me. 

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It works! We have a system that feels do-able! we have a system for monitoring and following up! we have people caring about it, and it's spread across a team. Thank you Melissa and all of us who worked on it.

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Carrie and Shaamar - this is a crazy time to be in leadership anywhere, but to be NEW leaders in a NEW school that you have never seen before is incredible. You have both earned the respect of your colleagues and the authority to lead through your presence, diligence, and thoughtfulness. So glad to have you on our team!

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I am grateful, as always, for how tihs team leads with humanity first- for students, for staff, the center of decision making,  planning, response is the human experince- how can we help peope to feel cared for, what is it that people need to feel their best. Never has that been more true than during the past few weeks. - Laura

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So grateful for Carrie and Shaamar - you both have brought such a calm, reflective presence to our team and I'm so appreciative of every interaction I have with both of you. -Antonina

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Sarah - Maybe I wouldn't have survived without you?  Maybe all my survival is because of you.  So grateful.
Antonina - Same.  Thank you for letting me unwind and for helping me see things in a different light every time.
Carrie - I don't remember life before you.  I function completely differently in ILT since you've been here.  Thank you.
Nina - Getting to work more closely to you has been so eye-opening and has pushed me further and faster this spring and summer than any other year.  I appreciate you and your leadership more than you know.
Ben - I think you're great.  You do literally everything and care about literally everything so deeply and consistently.  You're irreplaceable.
Charlotte - Every day somehow you show up with the same stability and warmth as any other day, despite what life throws at you.  It's truly amazing and a beautiful thing to behold.  Thank you for your friendship.
Shaamar - Imagine Excel without you?  Did that ever happen?  I am so happy to continue to work with you and see all the support you give to teachers and students!
Darius - Seeing you this year step into an immense amount of leadership feels so right.  Your voice is everything for our students.
Stevie - You are a super hero.  And hilarious and calm at every turn and our school would fall apart without your leadership.  Can't say thank you enough.
Laura - How do I get to be as hilarious, as loving, as confident as you?  I'm listening.
Melissa - Every day I wonder... how many jobs does Melissa do?  Is it... seven?  And your calm and light just fill a Zoom room every day.  It's truly amazing and we rely on you for so much.
Yinnette - So blessed to know you and learn from you and soak up a little of your grace and love. I don't know how to explain that in any other way.

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I felt so much shared ownership with everyone on the team. There was no project I owned that I felt "alone" in - instead, I felt very connected and supported and held by others in this work. From orientations to materials to new staff culture to all staff culture to Zoom security to academic policies, I have so enjoyed collaborating and launching with this team.

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I am amazed that we have a real remote school up and running. I think the best days from this summer and the start of the year were the days students came to pick up materials. It was the first time we met some of our new staff in person and it was so wonderful to see the students!

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Grateful for: a vision of shared leadership that asks me to step up to responsibilities and ownership, and a team that holds high standards but also brings empathy and allowance for errors.

Successes: students are showing up and working hard, teachers are adapting plans for remote learning and responsiveness to student needs, we all figured out how to do schedule changes, home group and whole group touchpoints are built into the weekly schedule, a balance of synchronous and asynchronous work that is feeling realistic and rigorous so far.

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I am grateful for the support I feel that comes from my team and from leadership team overall. I feel that one success I want to hold on to is our team's ability to pivot quickly. I remember during this summer when we were still weighing hybrid models for reopening. To then see the quick pivot to fully remote which everyone handled so professionally and without resistance was amazing. It felt very much like a holistic effort which is always reassuring. Shoutout to you all for killing it these past few weeks!!! Good Vibes Only.

-Shaamar

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Now, maybe more than any other year, it has felt (in the 2 days i covered advisory) that students see this as a safe place- it's joyful, it's nourishing. So much of it is our kids and our staff longing to connect, but it's also built on a foundation of other work being done.

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What are you grateful for as we close out the launch period of the 2020-2021 pandemic school year? Who do you want to shout out on our Leadership Team? What successes do you want to celebrate or hold on to? 

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What are you grateful for as we close out the launch period of the 2020-2021 pandemic school year? Who do you want to shout out on our Leadership Team? What successes do you want to celebrate or hold on to? 