We make time for what we really believe. Good collaboration takes time, but bad collaboration takes even more time.

Tom Hierck can be found at his web site.

• superintendent department of ed, 34 years in education.

• Great educators all over the place.

• Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom

• I have yet to meet a kid who is connected who disappoints.

• If you build them, they will learn.

• Learn every kid’s DNA, Dreams, Needs, Abilities

• Start with something simple.

• Every kid wants adult time and we should make that positive.

• Focus on the kids

• Kids don’t get consequenced to better behavior.

• Don’t try to change people, try to change behavior.

• Have adult conversations about what we are going to do with kids.

• You can’t manage every classroom from your office.

• Be the “Judicious Parent”

• What is managed within and what is managed without the classroom.

• The difference between rules and expectations.

• What it looks like, feels, like, sounds like.

• If we don’t model what we expect, then we should expect what we model.

• How to work with challenging team members?

• If everyone is nodding their head in agreement, you know somebody is leaving in disagreement.

• Sometimes, we just follow someone and deal with what they left behind.

• Leadership Rule #1, whether you create it or condone it, you own it.

• How to deal with the comfortable, but not good.

• Get clarity on our purpose.

• Knowing the skills you have, how do you see that aligning with our purpose.

• When it gets tough, we will turn to each other when we have clarity of purpose.

• We do construction work in times of calm.

• Ineffective practices = easy.

• We have to get to the hard stuff and be willing to get messy to service 100 % of our kids.

• How to find time. We make time for what we really believe.

• Good collaboration takes time, but Bad collaborations takes even more time.

• Chase time doesn’t work

• How to be a transformative principal? Ensure that relationships are healthy and positive. Being positive doesn’t guarantee a good outcome, but being negative does guarantee a negative outcome.

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