The Empowered Principal Program

Over the last few years of working with clients and school leaders, I’ve created a lot of personal development tools and mulled over how to bring them into the professional setting. As 2020 exemplified, we all need some kind of plan and systematic way of approaching our jobs as school leaders, and I’ve got just the solution and I can’t wait to share it with you today.

This week, I’m introducing you to the Empowered Principal process and what it entails. When we make the leap in our careers to school leadership, it never goes exactly as expected. The realities of it often miss the mark of what we envisioned, and navigating all the pressures that come along with the job can sometimes be too much.

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How to Achieve Any Goal in 2021

Towards the end of last year, I started the Empowered Principal Leadership Series: a free webinar training series to help spread the power of coaching throughout the school leadership community.

In the spirit of a new year and becoming new versions of ourselves, I’ve decided to share a replay of a webinar I held this week on the subject of how to approach goal setting in a way that’s fun, simple, and builds off of your strengths and successes, so you have a process for achieving any goal in 2021.

I’m also taking some time at the start of the episode to discuss how I’ve been helping my clients through discussing the recent events at the Capitol Building with their staff and students.

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Future Vision

After winter break, I hope all you school leaders are refreshed and ready to take on 2021. This time last year, we were talking about our “2020 visions,” and I don’t think anyone could have predicted the havoc that the past 12 months would bring to our schools. So, I want to make sure that we don’t get caught up this time around.

This month on the podcast, we’re talking about creating a future vision for 2021 of the kind of principal that you want to be, the energy you want to bring to the job, how you can be a visionary, and how you want to experience your own life this year. So at least, if we’re in for another year of chaos, you will be grounded in your own reality.

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The Blessing of 2020

This might be a controversial opinion, but I believe there is a huge blessing to be taken from 2020 and what it has shown us about our education system. I believe that the current goal of our education system does not actually serve a huge proportion of our students, and the pandemic has amplified this reality. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

I’m sharing a story this week that inspired a conversation and some real introspection about what the goal of our education system is, how we measure success, and who gets neglected as a result of these things. And if we’re all willing to take part in this conversation, I truly believe that 2021 can be the year we finally start creating an education system that works for everyone.

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