The way we were trained to support teachers often creates resentment on both sides.

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We tend to feed what we need. In other words, we often offer teachers the support WE would want if we were in their shoes rather than the support they actually need.

Have you ever provided really great support for a teacher and the teacher didn’t appreciate it? If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything you can to support teachers and they don’t appreciate it, today’s episode is for you: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode256

If you're expecting teachers to differentiate and use the strategies of differentiation, use those same strategies for differentiation for the professional development that you're providing for teachers so that you can give teachers what they need: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255

If you are not clear about how you expect teachers to implement what they learn during PD, you can’t be mad if they don’t.

We all know that PD is not good if it's one size fits all. But the problem is we were never trained on how to truly differentiate our PD. Discover how to build meaningful PD #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255

If we expect teachers to differentiate for students, why are we not differentiating our PD for them?

If your PD isn’t clearly aligned to your vision, mission, and core values, it is a waste of everyone’s time.

If the PD that you're providing is connected to your vision, mission and core values, then your vision mission and core values become the accountability mechanism. Discover how to build meaningful PD #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255

It's not about the best practice. The question is: will that best practice get you to your vision, mission and core values? Discover how to build meaningful PD #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/epiosde255

If your PD doesn’t change teacher practice, why are you doing it?

Before you do anything, you need to make sure that the professional development you are providing builds teachers ability to either achieve your vision for 100% of your students: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255

The purpose of feedback is to let someone know how far away they are from your vision, mission, and core values and what ONE thing they need to do next in order to close that gap.

We’ve all had that experience where we’ve been in a PD session and thought to ourselves: This is a waste of my time. It’s either irrelevant or poorly designed or awkwardly delivered or just plain useless. Discover how to build meaningful PD #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255

Three signs, the bigness of their vision, the length of their time horizon, and the quality of their problems are three things that will let you know that the person is either a boss, a leader, or are they approaching everything they do, like a builder: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode254

Where other people see problems, Builders see opportunities.

If you don't see yourself doing it for the next five years, you shouldn't do it for a day. Find out if someone is just talking the talk or are they truly thinking and working #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/epiosde254

Tactics don’t solve problems, they merely mitigate them.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by your problems, it probably means that you are trying to solve the wrong problems.

A boss is thinking about next day, next week next month. Builders think long-term. Find out if someone is just talking the talk or are they truly thinking and working #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode254