Nov 25, 2018
Invitation Only Parent Teacher Conferences with Jay Posick Transformative Principal 254
Social Media: If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!
Jay Posick is principal of Merton Intermediate school in Merton Wisconsin
- How our culture came to be here in Merton.
- Weekly nuts and bolts emails “Good Morning Merton Family“
- Take care of kids…
- Connect with people face to face.
- There aren’t silver bullets.
- Get out of your office.
- If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it!
- 3 all-staff meetings each year that I’m in charge of.
- First agenda item on grade level meetings is kids.
- There are times as educators where we focus more on the negative than on the positive
- Recognize kids that are going above and beyond.
- Be kind, be safe, do your job.
- Good news call of the day. #mertonproud
- Finding ways to recognize kids.
- Find a way for teachers to share more with others.
- Mark French came up with the idea.
- Have a positive phone call at the end of the week.
- Ordinary to you, amazing to everyone else.
- Invitation only conferences
- Pat on the back or a kick in the butt!
- Building Leadership Team.
- More on invitation only conferences.
- Great things, challenges, great things.
- How to be a transformative principal? Get out of your office!
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