26. Design Thinking: Creating the Future, with Joe Erpelding

Our guest today is Joe Erpelding. Joe is the Principal at Design39 Campus where he has used his previous experience - he was the Principal and Vice Principal at the Unified San Diego School District - as well as his vision to transform the school into an active community of learners.

In this episode, Joe offers insight on how you could change the culture in your school to improve your growth. Moreover, Joe and Andreas discuss the different ways to navigate through the fear of change that may overwhelm the leaders of any school.

Listen and take note of Joe’s unique perception on the use of words to change the way others respond to what you are saying.

Quotes:

14:43 “I've been described as 85% visionary and 15% pissed off”

19:30 “The future's a place that WE create. With the focus on "we" create it, we don't wait for someone else to do it”

22:05 “We use language so freely in society - we all think we're talking about the same thing and we all have our own bias towards those words. Like rigor, I think of rigor - I think of rigor mortis”

Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:

Scott Belsky: Making Ideas Happen (book) buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Ideas-Happen-Overcoming-Obstacles/dp/1591844118

Getting Smart Podcast: https://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/05/leadership-for-school-progress-in-poway-unified/

Design39 webpage: http://design39campus.com/

Where to learn more about Joe:

Joe on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joeerpelding

Joe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/erpelding

Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-erpelding-35b52234/

Where to learn more about Enrollhand:

Website: www.enrollhand.com

Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com

Our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/