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Lead From The Start by Tommy Reddicks and Tina Merriweather Seymour

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Lead From The Start by Tommy Reddicks and Tina Merriweather Seymour

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Leaders need to have relationship agility. Leaders need to know how to: push people toward enthusiasm with high performance, step on the gas while knowing when to pump the brakes, remain emotionally composed with a crisis strikes, and create a healthy urgency to push toward higher achievement. Emotional intelligence is within every aspect of a leader's job and every choice contributes to the success of your relationships.

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Leaders should be able to differentiate between positive and negative relationships. Criteria to consider when measuring and evaluating relationships are: impact on mission and vision, vet partnerships through chain of command, authenticity, does it fit within what is currently happening, and intentionality.

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Leaders need to be able to determine the need for additional financial and public support, whether this is in terms of raising funds or building public support. For fundraising, there are three levels of contributions: drops in the bucket, midsize contributions, and capital campaigns. For friend-raising, the purpose is to build public support and is proactive in potential future support. The goal is for these relationships to grow authentically and develop trust and is part of the long game of fundraising.

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Leaders are pivotal in anchoring their schools as a community resource, a community school. While we spend a lot of time considering our internal community, we must look at the efforts we are making for the external community. Leaders can look at their own external communities, but noting they shouldn't forget the external community that their teachers and staff have. These many connections will be pivotal in community engagement efforts and help provide a clear path for the school to interact with the community.

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How can the concept of emotional intelligence influence your personal ability to lead staff?

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What systems can you implement to stay focused on your school's mission and vision when stakeholders, organizations, and vendors barrage you as the new leader of the school? How can the relationship measuring sticks help with this process?

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How will you strike a balance between focus on strategic systems and relationship agility in your leadership?

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Q. What is the Enneagram personality test based on?

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This free Enneagram personality test will show you which of the 9 personality types suits you best. See how you score for all 9 Enneagram types, and understand where you fit in the Enneagram personality system.

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves

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Quiz: Do you lead with emotional intelligence?

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Quiz: Do you lead with emotional intelligence?

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Quiz Yourself: Do You Lead with Emotional Intelligence?

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Rate yourself on five key dimensions, and see how you compare with others.

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Beyond the Bake Sale by Anne T Henderson & Karen L Mapp & Vivian R Johnson & Don Davies

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Beyond the Bake Sale by Anne T Henderson & Karen L Mapp & Vivian R Johnson & Don Davies

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Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) 

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This is a website devoted to providing research, lesson plans, and implementation strategies.

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Advancing Social and Emotional Learning - CASEL

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CASEL is helping make evidence-based social and emotional learning an integral part of education, preschool through high school.

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The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley 

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This website offers articles, videos, and exercises on emotional intelligence and well-being.

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Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

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Based at UC Berkeley, Greater Good reports on groundbreaking research into the roots of compassion, happiness, and altruism.

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How might community engagement invite change or improvement to your specific school setting?

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Positive and Negative Qualities of Partnerships

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Positive and Negative Qualities of Partnerships

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TED Talk: The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown

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TED Talk: The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown

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Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

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TED Talk: How to Make Stress your Friend by Kelly McGonigal

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TED Talk: How to Make Stress your Friend by Kelly McGonigal

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Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

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10 Mistakes to Avoid in your School Video 

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Administration & Leadership

School leaders using video to communicate with their communities-for everything from campus tours to fundraising appeals-can maximize their impact with these tips.

As digital consumers, we all understand that video can engage an audience's sense of hearing and seeing like no other medium. And because video production is now so accessible-anyone with a phone can make a video-schools are using video to inspire families, to support fundraising efforts, and for a variety of other purposes.

As with any other activity, there are better and worse ways to make videos, and as an educational consultant who works with schools to raise their profiles, I try to help school leaders avoid those worse ways.

10 Things to Not Do When You're Making a School Video

Mistake 1: Thinking your video can do and say it all. You're investing a lot of time and/or money in a video, so you might be tempted to make it as versatile as possible, but focusing on your stated purpose should be your only goal. If you make a video about your school's social and emotional learning program, and then try to make it do double duty for fundraising or to celebrate an anniversary, it simply won't work. If you try to say too much, you'll end up saying nothing at all. Instead, make a separate video for each purpose you have.

Mistake 2: Talking only about your school and not about your viewers. Viewers watching your video don't want to hear solely about your mission and vision-your video should invite them into the story. Help them see how they fit in and how it feels to be part of your community.

Mistake 3: Failing to define what you want the viewer to do. Failing to keep your viewer-and what you want them to do-front and center will dilute the power of your video. The video is an invitation to take the next step, so the last thing you want is a video that makes your community feel closed or uninviting. To stoke curiosity and excitement, invite your viewers to engage more deeply with you, and use your video to tell them how they can do that.

Mistake 4: Focusing on the features. The answer to the question of what's distinctive about your school cannot rest on a set of features. For example, if you're the only school with a state-of-the-art science lab, you won't be for long. So don't spend precious video time emphasizing features-they are not what differentiates your school from others in your area. Instead, your video should focus on what those features mean for students, whether that's deeper learning, or a stronger sense of community, or something else.

Mistake 5: Failing to make a campus tour a compelling story. If your video takes folks around campus showing them landmarks, athletic facilities, and new buildings, you don't have a compelling video. Instead, tell them why landmarks mean something, what the field results in for athletes, and why you do the things you do. If you don't explain the "why" of your campus, you leave viewers to come to conclusions on their own.

Mistake 6: Forgetting the emotion. Your video needn't make people cry, but evoking emotion will create a sense of connection with your school. Many school videos fail to connect emotionally because they focus on facts rather than tell a story. Your video should create a visceral sense of what it feels like to be part of your community.

Mistake 7: Losing sight of what makes your viewers tick. Whatever will most inspire viewers is probably linked to a value you share with them. Ideally, your values tap into how your viewers see themselves. Dig deep to uncover the crossover between the emotion your viewers want to feel and the values your school holds dear. When you and the viewers of your video are aligned in your values, your school only gets stronger and stronger.

Mistake 8: Sharing your values inauthentically. Brands-including schools-are stronger when they are authentic. They don't make promises they can't keep, and they don't pretend to be something they're not. That means your school video should share the honest truth of who you are. If your school deeply values diversity, equity, and inclusion, for example, resist the urge to cast your video with a student of every race and ethnicity, which might come across as inauthentic. Instead, feature school personnel explaining the steps the school has taken or is taking to be more inclusive and welcoming.

Mistake 9: Poor production value. Your video can be the single most powerful tool in your toolbox, and your production value should match it. A well-produced video will stoke emotion, connection, and commitment to your school.

Mistake 10: Not having a plan for your video. Will your video be used in small meetings, larger events, social media, or some other way? Be clear about its use so your video meets the real need. A captive audience at an event might be moved by a five-minute video, but an individual receiving it via email probably won't stick around. Being clear about how and when your audience will view your video ensures you can shape the right message, tone, length, and style.

Your school effort deserves the expertise, production values, and skill that will engage viewers. If you avoid these pitfalls, your video will surely be a success.

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10 Mistakes to Avoid in Your School Video

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School leaders using video to communicate with their communities-for everything from campus tours to fundraising appeals-can maximize their impact with these tips.

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School Leadership Reimagined Podcast - Episode 9

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School Leadership Reimagined Podcast - Episode 9

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Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:

Your Core Values are a largely under-used but powerful secret weapon to help you not only build trust with your teachers, parents, and students in a way that makes everyone immediately more accountable.

Turning your Core Values into non-negotiables is a simple process, but once you do, you have so much more clarity and transparency which allows you make better decisions that move your school forward.

Have you ever endured one of those awful core values exercises? And then, once you're done, you throw them up on the wall and never do anything with them again? You see, there's difference between the core values we have on the wall and the ones that play out each day in school. In this episode, we're going to examine what our REAL core values are and how we can leverage them in a powerful way to do everything from hold teachers more accountable, to shape our instructional program, to better communicate with parents and students.

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What are Your School's REAL Core Values?

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In this episode, we're going to examine what our REAL core values are and how we can leverage them in a powerful way to do everything from hold teachers more accountable, to shape our instructional program, to better communicate with parents and students.

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Family Involvement Makes a Difference in School Success - Harvard Family Research Project

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This Research Brief was produced for release at the Raising Student Achievement, 2006 National PTA Legislative Conference.

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Youth Development Executives School-Community Partnership Toolkit 

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Youth Development Executives School-Community Partnership Toolkit 

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Types of Family & Community Connections with Schools 

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Types of Family & Community Connections with Schools 

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8 Steps that Move People from Prospect to Loyal Donor 

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8 Steps that Move People from Prospect to Loyal Donor 

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Eight-Step Major Gifts Management Cycle

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Identify
Identify who can provide the funding for your work/project. Best prospects meet three criteria: financial capacity, connection to your organization, interest in your work/project
Research
Understand how much an individual might be able to give and why they are likely to do so, to help you design a plan that meets their needs and motivations. Assess each potential donor against the three key criteria listed above.
Plan
Develop a step-by-step plan for how you are going to engage a prospect towards a solicitation for a specific project or investment opportunity.
Qualify
Clarify if donor not only meets capacity and connection criteria, but also is interested in deepening their relationship and investment. This is where you discover if they are interested in actually moving forward in the relationship.
Cultivate
Establish a personal connection between the potential donor and the organization. Move prospects from a general interest in the organization to a deeper level of commitment to the work and a real enthusiasm for your success.
Ask
Move conversation from cultivation focused to making a specific request to invest in the work/project. Make an explicit request for support from the prospect - at the right gift level, for the right project, at the right time and by the right person.
Close
Formalize donation details in a written agreement. Formalize agreement of donation amount, timing of payment/pledges, and how payments will it be made and with what assets.
Steward
Ensure the donor is both properly thanked for their giving and also kept up to date on the impact their gift is making. Acknowledge - in ways that are meaningful to the donor - the important contribution they have made to your work. Communicate regularly and creatively the impact their giving is making. Ensure the donor has an exceptional donor experience.

Download our handy chart that breaks down exactly the focus of each step in more detail, how you know when someone is ready to move to the next, and what role staff and board members play in each one.

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8 Steps that Move People from Prospect to Loyal Donor - The Varga Group

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Identify Identify who can provide the funding for your work/project. Best prospects meet three criteria: financial capacity, connection to your organization, interest in your work/project Research Understand how much an individual might be able to give and why they are likely to do so, to help you design a plan that meets their needs and motivations.

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SEDL Archive

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Stages of Concern, a Dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM)

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The progress of new programs is often measured by how well they are being executed. This approach tends to ignore a critical actor—the person charged with implementing the innovation. The Stages of Concern process helps keep the people doing the work at the center of the change process. Using the St…

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The Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships 

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The Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships 

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4 Steps to Create Trusting Relationships 

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As a principal, when you earn the trust of teachers and show respect, there's not much they won't do for you. As I have always said, when you have their backs, you will have their hearts as well.

That makes building relationships priority No. 1, but how much time do you have? The average time a principal serves in a school is three to five years. There are many reasons for this quick turnover, including school districts reassigning principals to keep them fresh.

It's a tough situation for principals to wade into. If you don't connect quickly with teachers, they know they can wait you out. Take this four-step, focused approach to instill the kind of trust that jumpstarts collective action toward shared goals. These strategies help you develop the positive relationships you desire with your staff to be successful from day one.

1. Meet with every teacher, asking questions meant to elicit actionable information: What does this school do well? What are you successful at? What do you see other schools do well? What are areas where you could do better, or I could help you and the school improve?

2. Lead development of a shared vision: Every school has a mission statement, but nobody can tell you what it is. Effective teams share an understanding of the vision and mission, so seek staff input to create "our vision." With a clear vision, the principal and the team know what they're striving for and can assess progress.

3. Embrace servant leadership: Demonstrate that you are there to serve teachers and staff. Provide resources and help them be their best. Assign responsibilities based on teachers' strengths and the things they enjoy (remember those conversations you had at the beginning?) Always let them know what is expected of them. Connect on a personal level, just like teachers do with students. It means the world to a teacher when you simply ask, "How's your mom?"

4. Hone your leadership style: Understand your strengths, but don't gloss over major weaknesses. Know what you don't know. Make time to read about leadership and glean the tips that suit your style. Don't feel like you have to know it all or be perfect. Find a mentor. And finally, solicit feedback, because how can you improve if you don't know where to focus your time and effort? Besides, it models for teachers how to handle feedback and use it for professional growth.

While such things as planning, curriculum, technology, and budgets are important aspects of being a successful principal, few things are as important as building strong, positive relationships with your teachers and staff. After all, the teacher is more important to the success of their students than curriculum or technology, so they should be your focus as a leader.

Remember that you can't administrate a school to excellence, but you can lead a school to excellence. Still, excellence requires everyone functioning together as a team with common goals. Then, as a team, you can set the professional tone for your school by instilling these core beliefs:

Be world class. Whatever your role, be your best!

No surprises. If something is wrong, you want to hear it directly from the teacher, not the grapevine.

We support each other. We are united!

Finally, remember that if you support, encourage, and appreciate your staff, you will create a high-performing school culture where teachers feel valued and will give their best every day!

Brad Johnson is author of Principal Bootcamp.

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4 Steps to Create Trusting Relationships - NAESP

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Optimism and engagement improve school climate, but time can be your enemy. Brad Johnson, author of Principal Bootcamp, shares how to prioritize relationships that make teachers want to come to work.

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The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership with Heather Chauvin – Schools of Excellence by Chanie Wilschanski

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Meeting Families Where They are: Building Equity through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

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Meeting Families Where They are: Building Equity through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

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NACSA Charter School Principles and Standards

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NACSA Charter School Principles and Standards

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Resources from Lead From the Start @ Solution Tree 

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Resources from Lead From the Start @ Solution Tree 

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One of the leading K-12 education companies, Solution Tree offers professional development, online courses, and education books for teachers. Solution Tree works to raise student achievement and performance by providing customizable tools and strategies that empower educators and further teacher edu…

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Community Partnership Quick Start Guide.pdf

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Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles 

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Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles 