Admin, Its not just students who need Maslow before Bloom. Teachers also need: 1) feel safe / supported 2) Volition/ sense of autonomy 3) attention/ appreciation 4) emotional connection/ relationship 5) value within the team

My biggest issue with education is that we try to make teachers one size fits all. I can walk in 5 different classrooms and there will be 5 different teachers who are great for different reasons. It’s their unique strengths that make them great. Not a standardized template.

#representationmatters

Congratulations Ms. Cobb on being accepted to the 19-20 Teach. LEAD. Learn. cohort. Spotsylvania County Public Schools Brock Road Elementar Bethany Cobb

And to those that have days or weeks left, you got this! #nowgoandbegreat

LLE session with our teacher leaders was AMAZing! Great energy from this group! I can’t wait to grow with them over the next year! Shout out to the building admin supporting these teachers as they grow and lead from within our Spotsy classrooms. #TeachLEADLearn #EngageSCPS

Great kickoff session for #TeachLEADLearn Spotsylvania County Public Schools #teacherleadership #EngageSCPS

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” #engagescps -Albert Einstein.

“A dream is something you really want to do. A calling is something you have to do.” -John C. Maxwell

Words are containers of power. How are you using your power in education?! #edchat

It will never be yesterday. #nogoandbegreat today and forever!

This is such a sad truth. And it’s a shame because we are indeed better than this! Only together can we achieve the incredible. #nowgoandbegreat

In med school, I took an elective called "Stress", foolishly thinking I was going to learn about meditation and yoga. Instead the professor spent 6 weeks proving that being poor or a minority literally destroys your health on a molecular level, and I think about that every day.

Districts with many schools often ask their principals to do things the same. While uniformity helps at times, innovation is necessary now. Allow leaders to meet the needs of their staff, their families. You want a custom home or a manufactured one? Let them be the architects.

We’ve always known this....a reminder Completing worksheets and answering questions isn’t learning. Giving packets is not remote learning We should not equate work completion with learning.

Just because people are listening, doesn’t mean they are learning. Long lectures often lead to compliant disengagement and low levels of mastery. We ALL learn by doing. This applies to kids and adults.

"A gigantic body of research shows that the relationships in a kid's life are like the roots of a tree," said educator Kent Pekel. "When kids have strong roots they can grow, they can thrive, they can withstand the storms life throws at them." ow.ly/rP1y50BnNqq

BTW, overloading teachers w/ PD can have an adverse effect in that teachers will feel inundated with too many new strategies/ideas to try & feel overwhelmed or discouraged. They're professionals, trust them to do whats best for their kids or engage in PD they feel benefits them.