Teacher evaluations at the school leadership and district level are often seen as a compliance issue. There needs to be a formal process for observing and evaluating our teachers’ performances to best serve your school and community, and every industry has its own way of measuring employee performance.

However, if you’re dreading or procrastinating on your teacher evaluations and often find that they’re not particularly valuable or engaging to you or your teachers, you’re most definitely not alone. The good news is that you as a school leader can dive deeper and go beyond the surface of just checking boxes and aiming for ambiguous goals, and this is where your teacher evaluation philosophy steps in. 

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Emotions are a hugely important topic that I talk about on this podcast because emotional energy is the driving force behind every decision we make and action we take. If you’re a long-time listener here, you’ll be well versed in the importance of understanding and processing our emotions, but it was presented to me today by my master coach in a new and innovative way that I had to share with you too. 

Getting intimate with our emotions is the most vital tool you have access to as a human and school leader, and on this episode, you’ll hear my three-step emotional processing practice to help you create space for allowing all your emotions. However, we also have thoughts and opinions about the emotions we’re experiencing, and this is where there’s mind-blowing work to be done. 

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This week’s episode is dealing with the sensitive topics of school shootings, loss, and grief. I have a long-time colleague and friend Krista St-Germain on the show who specializes in coaching around grief. Given some of the tragedies of the recent past on our school campuses, grief in our work as school leaders is something we need to be equipped to help ourselves and others deal with.

Krista St-Germain is a life coach who helps widowed moms figure out how to love life again after losing a spouse. She has a unique approach to grief, and she’s here today to share the tools that helped her start to live a life she loves after loss because a lot of the things we think we know about grief are actually outdated and misunderstood.

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If you’re both a school leader and a parent, my speculation is that you have some level of guilt going on about your job, the hours you work, and your own kids. I was a single mom at the beginning of my school leadership journey and guilt was most definitely at the forefront of my life, and my guest today also has the experience of being both a mom and the child of an educator.

Today, I’m speaking to the life coach for working moms, Rebecca Olson. Rebecca specifically works with women who love working and describe themselves as career-driven women, and as a school leader, I know you’re passionate about excelling in education as well as in your role as a parent. Both are truly possible, and today, we’re diving into navigating parent guilt as a working parent and school leader.

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I have a very dear friend and special guest on the podcast this week: Maggie Reyes. She is a coach for Type-A women who want to have amazing marriages, which speaks to my soul in all the ways, and she’s here to discuss how you as a school leader can have a beautiful, loving, healthy relationship with your partner at home while also being an Empowered Principal at school.

Maggie is a magical Master Certified Life Coach who works with women who are wildly successful in their professional life, so that’s all of you listening, and she’s here to give us some practical education in terms of how to feel better in your relationship, no matter what’s going on at school.

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