Ep #322: Planning Professional Development

The Empowered Principal® Podcast Angela Kelly | Planning Professional Development

I recently came across a post that was asking for speaker recommendations when it comes to professional development days. The interaction I had on this post made me reflect on how site and district leaders plan for professional development for their schools, and I’m sharing my insights with you this week.

I know that many of you are tasked with having to decide on topics or themes and hire speakers or presenters for your school’s professional development days. I also know that for the majority of you, this process feels like another thing on your already full to-do list. Although planning professional development seems like just another box to tick, there’s an opportunity here for you to leverage the growth of your entire community.

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Ep #321: Clear Intentional Decisions

The Empowered Principal® Podcast Angela Kelly | Clear Intentional Decisions

This week, I’m diving into a powerful but deceptively sneaky thought most school leaders carry around with them every single day, and it’s this: “I want to make the right decision.”

Wanting to make the ‘right’ decision is a thought we hold very tightly onto, and it drives our actions in unhelpful ways that you might not see right now. It’s no surprise that believing you have to make the ‘right’ decision is leaving you frozen. So if you find yourself spinning in indecision, procrastinating, and worrying about whether or not you’re making the right decision, this episode is for you.

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Ep #320: Substitute Teacher Support: Key Insights for Principals with Megan Conklin

The Empowered Principal® Podcast Angela Kelly | Substitute Teacher Support: Key Insights for Principals with Megan Conklin

We often overlook the valuable contributions of substitute teachers, who serve as essential members of our staff. As principals, we are so busy running around that we may not emphasize the importance of nurturing and cultivating our substitute teachers enough. While everyone assumes substitutes are being looked after, they don’t receive the acknowledgment and support they deserve.

To discuss the importance of nurturing and cultivating our substitutes, I am excited to welcome Megan Conklin to the show. Megan received her master’s in teaching in 2001 and has been working as a teacher, an instructional specialist, and a substitute ever since. Megan participated in the creation of sub-communities to offer support to substitutes, and she’s here to give tips on how principals can contribute to creating a more welcoming environment for substitutes.

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Ep #319: Leveraging District Walkthroughs

The Empowered Principal® Podcast Angela Kelly | Leveraging District Walkthroughs

What is your experience of district walkthroughs as a site leader? Whether you’ve had the more formal district walkthrough experience with clipboards and documents offering feedback, or you’ve experienced more casual interactions where it’s up to you to interpret and decipher the feedback, they often get our teachers extremely worked up.

The experience I’m hearing from my clients all over the country is that their teachers stress, worry, and freak out about district walkthroughs. There are several reasons most teachers dread this experience, which I’m diving into on this episode. However, as a site leader, you have the opportunity to leverage district walkthroughs to create empowerment, and I’m here to show you how.

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