Positive Intentions with Melinda Miller - Episode 11 - Transformative Principal

Feb 16, 2014

In this episode I have the great opportunity to interview Melinda Miller (@mmiller7571). I have followed her for a long time on Twitter, and I loved the podcast she did with @ScottElias called Practical Principals. That great podcast partly inspired me to start this podcast. I still haven't found a podcast that talks about the real issues that are facing to

Our conversation covers these topics:

1. Positive intentions - how she approaches teachers who need to be corrected.
2. Turnover and how she gets great people to come to her school.
3. Her quick-start personality and how she shares results of her evaluations with the teachers.
4. Adaptive schools trainings were conducted at her school, and here is more information about it.
5. How she uses Twitter for her own learning and how she teaches others, she is a Twitter grandmother according toSpike Cook.
6. How she uses Pinterest to help her teachers.
7. Using a Voxer group of principals to talk a little more privately about topics that are
8. Jethro's Twitter failure when he was a teacher.
9. What is one thing a principal can do to be a transformative principal like you are?
10. What is something in her office that is meaningful to you?

She has a lot of great information on her blog. If you read blogs by principals and you aren't reading hers, you are missing out.

Have a Good Life.