Supporting Engaging and Empowering Your Staff with Christopher Jones Transformative Principal 276

 

Christopher is a principal at Whitman Hansen Regional High School.

Transitioning to a new high school. A new position gives you the opportunity to reflect on where you want to go and who you want to go. Sharing yourself first. I’m not a student-centered principal! I’m a staff-centered principal. Build staff meetings around getting to know each other. Building relationships Every day, with some exceptions, I’m in classrooms giving feedback to teachers. Out in front playing music with kids. Using Voxer to give immediate feedback and face-to-face meetings. Three simple questions: What’s working? What do I need to stop doing? What can I do to make your life better or easier? Start by supporting, then you engage them, then you empower them. A good leader is a servant leader. A good leader becomes a better leader by making others more successful. Clear the road for others. Experience is so important and we have to fail to keep learning. We don’t know how good we can be. Every student leaving the high school with something in their pocket to prepare them for the next level. Key components of S1 to raise failing grade to passing grade. Empowering teachers to give kids hope and keep integrity of the grades. Teachers choose most important units and then give kids an opportunity to make things happen. 92% of the kids who did winter school passed the year-long course. Summer Read Smackdown! Interdisciplinary days - kids don’t come back to a test on the book. How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms and give honest feedback to teachers so you can have a conversation with them.

 

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