September 01, 2021

S4E1 - The Best Leaders Are Those Who Empower Their Team! - Tom Woelper

42 minutes

Tom Woelper is a Founding Head of School at New England Innovation Academy. Tom shares great insight on how his team is creating a different kind of school to prepare students to face a future they want to shape!

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Tom on Twitter - @twoelper
Tom on LinkedIn
New England Innovation Academy on Twitter - @HelloNEIA

5:15 The Best Leaders Are The Ones Who Empower Their Team
8:00 If you don't listen, If you don't empower - you're not going to be successful
9:45 Lawrenceville School
10:30 Schools get caught in a cultural inertia of what they have been
11:00 Schools are bad at math
12:00 What should school look like now?
12:45 Putting time tables on everything a school does
13:45 Taft School
14:00 Teachers College, Columbia University
14:15 Friendship Highway
14:15 American Pacific International School
16:30 The Hotchkiss School
18:00 Matthew Kressy - MIT Professional Education
18:15 Human-Centered Design
18:15 Graduate innovators who can be the change they want to see in the world
19:00 Stanford d.school
19:15 Try to understand the needs of others with great empathy
19:30 You don't come in as an"expert" and presume that you know what's best for them
20:00 Failure and Fail Forward
21:00 How Sesame Street philosophy can help your school
23:00 Recruiting students with just an idea
27:45 Hechinger Report - Declining Birth Rates
28:15 Have the humility to know you are wrong
29:00 New Jersey Association of Independent Schools
29:45 Be curious, expand your experiences,
31:15 Don't lose sight of why you are in education
35:15 Getting out of your comfort zone

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