SEEing to Lead

Georgina is a visionary education leader, an inspiring writer, podcaster, and keynote speaker, and is keen to impact creative innovation across Europe, Middle East & Africa, where she has been fostering change in education for over a decade. She empowers learners, educators, and school leaders with the 21st century skills, creative strategies, tools, and the confidence they need to be successful members of a global community, to thrive in tomorrow's competitive job market.

Key Takeaways:

• It's incredibly important to get feedback from your community, teachers, and students when judging levels of comfort
• Take time to celebrate peoples' strengths vertically across the district instead of just by subject or grade level
• The mind shift that needs to occur is how teachers can teach students to take care of their own learning
• Create structures that last beyond you to build trust and safety
• Build peoples' capacity to innovate

Get in Touch:

@TechyLeaderEDU

@CodeBreaker Leadership Team

@redefineED (IG)

www.redefineeducation.com

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Georgina is a visionary education leader, an inspiring writer, podcaster, and keynote speaker, and is keen to impact creative innovation across Europe, Middle East & Africa, where she has been fostering change in education for over a decade. She empowers learners, educators, and school leaders with the 21st century skills, creative strategies, tools, and the confidence they need to be successful members of a global community, to thrive in tomorrow's competitive job market. 

Key Takeaways:

• Create a staff Facebook page to help with onboarding new teachers
• Create staff Buddy systems
• Create a mentor system that that creates deeper relationships than the current required mentor system
• Support teachers from being overwhelmed by following the 3 steps of buddy system, resource bank, and human interaction
• Make sure you follow a tested and successful coaching framework whenever you are engaging and empowering teachers
• Educators want to make their leaders happy. They just need to know they're supported in return
• If teachers could do better they would. So it's up to the leaders to find out what's holding them back and take care of it
• Leaders need to provide space for educators to take risks and then accept them for where they are
• Stick to the appropriate pace that is acceptable by the community and the school when instituting change
• Give teachers agency when it comes to which digital tools they want to use to increase their students agency
• Huge paradigm shift about teachers being told to teach rather than facilitate.

Get in Touch:

@TechyLeaderEDU

@CodeBreaker Leadership Team

@redefineED (IG)

www.redefineeducation.com

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Hi! My name is Kerry Flood and I am a special education teacher in the math department at Whitman Hanson. I am also the assistant coach for the girls varsity soccer team and can't wait for our season opener! When I am not working, I thoroughly enjoy spending my free time with my one year old daughter who is my inspiration.

Key Takeaways:

• Take items that are large and intimidating and break them down into separate sections or tasks so people can realize it might not be as bad as originally peers
• Clear a transparent communication is most important
• Don't care about people just one time
• Is provide teachers time during the day to get commitments outside of school
• Clearly communicate opportunities to get involved through personal conversations
• Let newer teachers know that things are gonna be OK even though they're incredibly hard at that moment in time
• Leaders need to hear everybody before narrowing down the information to the best decision

Get in Touch:

Twitter: @whkerryflood

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Dagan currently works as the K-8 Capstone Coordinator at Hawai’i Preparatory Academy in Waimea on Hawai’i Island with additional experience in music, digital media, and mathematics instruction. A strong believer in developing student agency and supporting skills for a “future curriculum”, he is an advocate for using design, futures, and music thinking to support productive collaboration among educators. Dagan is also a musician who loves writing, recording, and performing at farmer’s markets and coffee shops throughout Hawai’i Island.

Key Takeaways:

• Leadership is a skill
• We need to model leadership for our students
• Leadership is not about a title so anybody can become a leader if given the opportunity
• Get to know your teachers for who they really are. Be intentional about getting to know people on a personal level
• It's important to give people safe spaces to express themselves as openly as possible
• You need to create the conditions for people to feel as if they can take risks and speak up
• We need to have and model a curious mindset
• Flatter models of the leadership structure need to make their way into education
• Work on keeping your own personal creativity alive
• Non conformity is often a valuable resource
• Plinko is a bad model for leadership

Get in Touch:

Twitter @daganbernstein

Instagram @dagan.blog

website at http://dagan.blog

Music www.daganmusic.com or look him up on Spotify.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Larry's path into education wasn’t  typical.   Upon graduating from Ithaca College, he spent 10 years in radio/television news before travelling across the country playing piano/singing at retirement communities- eventually arriving back in his hometown of Framingham, Massachusetts.  There, while substitute teaching, he became passionate about education and earned his Masters in Elementary Education from Lesley University.

Key Takeaways:

• Make sure you are intentional about building relationships
• Use specific, personalized questions to get great feedback from teachers
• Small actionable adjustments make all the different when building relationships and culture
• Use UDL for staff, not just students
• Focus on listening more than writing when taking notes in a meeting
• Make sure you take time to stop and see what everybody at the ground level thinks. Pay special attention to the needs of your stakeholders
• Self talk is an incredibly important part of your mindset
• Always assume positive intentions
• The process of authentically listening is difficult and takes practice
• Listening and reflection are both two way skills. We subconsciously listen to ourselves talk while listening to what people are saying and then we have to reflect on what we're saying while we reflect on how we listened to them

Get in Touch:

Twitter:   @WolpeMr

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Craig Martin is an award-winning teacher and principal, and frequent speaker on leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion, social-emotional learning, culturally responsive pedagogy & practice, and culturally responsive teaching.

He serves as the Executive Director of Bridge Boston Charter School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.

Craig was named the 2018 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and 2018 Elementary Principal of the Year by the Massachusetts School Administrators Association. In 2009, Boston Public Schools awarded Craig the Educator of the Year award.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts in elementary education from Dillard University in his native New Orleans, Louisiana, and his Master of Education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Key Takeaways:

• It's important to live in your cause
• Create bold spaces so people can be their authentic selves
• Identities matter
• Adults often need the same things our students do to create a positive working environment
• Highlight the common connection around educating children that you share with your teachers
• Make sure the connections between the why of your staff and leaders is very clear
• Having tough conversations is about vantage point and the history that everybody brings with them to the situation
• People need to be developed so that they can move beyond their current status, location, and situation
• Be aware that dissent often comes from a feeling of vulnerability around a person's proficiency in a certain skill
• Tolerance says I'm aware of your existence and keeps you in the same ecosystem. Acceptance says I may not agree with everything but you are, but I accept you for your whole self, your added value, and I am curious to learn.

Get in Touch:

@CraigCMartin12

https://linktr.ee/craigcmartin

"Just type Craig C Martin and Boston into Google and I'll show up"

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Jostens Renaissance Hall of Fame member - Dr. Frank Rudnesky is the author of Fired Up Leadership and 50 Great Things Leaders Do: Let’s Get Fired Up along with numerous articles published in the areas of leadership and technology influence. He draws on his experience as an accomplished teacher, award-winning middle school principal, and transformational leader to deliver his captivating keynotes and presentations to hundreds of audiences. As you listen to Dr. R.’s style of storytelling and his unconventional journey in life, it will get you “Fired Up” to pursue your passion and empower others to find their passion. His engagement, enthusiasm, and positive energy are contagious.

Key Takeaways:

• Cliques start at birth and end at death
• Ask before assuming when people behave in a certain way
• Find common ground to talk with somebody about
• You have to lead with yes
• Use a personal mission statement to guide your work
• Be that person you want around you
• Keep taking calculated and creative risks

Get in Touch:

@DrFrankRud

Fired Up Leadership

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Jostens Renaissance Hall of Fame member - Dr. Frank Rudnesky is the author of Fired Up Leadership and 50 Great Things Leaders Do: Let’s Get Fired Up along with numerous articles published in the areas of leadership and technology influence. He draws on his experience as an accomplished teacher, award-winning middle school principal, and transformational leader to deliver his captivating keynotes and presentations to hundreds of audiences. As you listen to Dr. R.’s style of storytelling and his unconventional journey in life, it will get you “Fired Up” to pursue your passion and empower others to find their passion. His engagement, enthusiasm, and positive energy are contagious.

Key Takeaways:

• Concepts that are priceless work with any age
• Passion is required for educators
• When you disrupt for the good, your success is unlimited
• Don't focus on who you are, but who you can become
• Positivity can be catchy, but so can negativity
• People will talk about you at the dinner table either way either way. So you can give them something to talk about or they will find something to talk about
• Leaders are a conduit to others so that they can become leaders
• Hang around people who make you feel important by recognizing who you are and what you do

Get in Touch:

@DrFrankRud

Fired Up Leadership

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Now in his seventh year as Principal of Uxbridge High School, Michael Rubin has successfully led Uxbridge High School’s designation as a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Innovation Pathway school, one of the first four schools in the state to earn this distinction. He currently serves on the PLTW Networking Conference Planning Committee, is chair of the Blackstone Valley Ed Hub Board of Advisors, UHS has also been recognized as a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools and the CAPS Network, and Mr. Rubin has presented on the state and national level regarding UHS’ commitment to authentic learning and building partnerships with local industry. Mike was also the 2020 Massachusetts School Administrator's Association (MSAA) High School Principal of the Year.

Key Takeaways

• Welcome the idea that every day brings new opportunity.
• It's important to help all people in the school system.
• Progression never happens in a straight line.
• Engaged teachers by adjusting their perception to that of support rather than endangerment.
• Ask and then highlight what teachers really believe in concerning education.
• Continuous support is key to teacher buy-in and success.

Contact

Uhsprincipal.blogspot.com

@UxbHSPrincipal

featured in AMLE middle school career exploration handbook

www.uxbridgeschools.com

Contributed to The Teacher's Guide to Self-Care (book by Melanie Pellowski)

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Renaissance and IXL. 

Learn more about Renaissance:

As a global leader in education technology operating in more than 110 countries, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We believe that technology can unlock a more effective learning experience, ensure that students get the personalized teaching they need to thrive, and help educators and administrators to truly, fully, See Every Student. Learn more at renaissance.com.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.