The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast | The #1 Downloaded School Leadership Show

Jonathan C. W. Jones is a seasoned award winning educator and founder of Ideation4, working with educators, schools, districts, nonprofit professionals and under resourced communities through grant workshops, coaching, consulting and innovation. Currently he's working on a philanthropic innovation called UpLIFT, dedicated to celebrating black male educators in the USA.

• Turning ideas into reality. Be a catalyst for change

• Hurdles black male educators face

• UpLIFT your black male teacher with this cohort

• Systems and organization to combat racist undertones

• How school leaders can uncover or discover that "Jonathan" within their community

• Practical ideas for a Ruckus Makers to take action on racial unrest

• Be a Lego builder of learning

"Students that fly under the radar have more to offer than what they're necessarily showing. Openness to see students outside of their grade that they may currently have, or consistently showing. See them more as a whole student. Yes, their grade is a reflection to some extent of who they are, but it's not who they are completely."

-Jonathan C. W. Jones

Jonathan C. W. Jones Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You'll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you.

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Emily Alexander is a Partner at Thomas, Alexander, Forrester & Sorensen LLP, a law firm in Venice, CA.  She also has served as the Board Chair at New Roads School for the last 6 years. New Roads is an independent school in Los Angeles dedicated to authentic diversity and inclusion.

• Build true authentically diverse and inclusive schools 
• Navigate the unknown with courage to embark on what is best
• Yield the power of silence and find your authentic voice
• Create "Meaningful Access" not just on paper, but actually in how you live and education.
• Process the way men and women communicate
• Tips for women in leadership to expand awareness 
• Avoid the old-fashioned dream of diversity
• Build a robust professional development program for your faculty 

"I think we're lucky to have a community that believes that diverse, true diversity is not just a moral good, but an educational imperative. There's a lot of research now about how diverse groups make better decisions and companies. It's now that research is now starting to include educational settings." 

-Emily Alexander

Emily Alexander Transcript

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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You'll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Citizen of the world yet Québécois and Canadian at heart, Philippe Caron-Auget is an international educator who has worked in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Qatar, France, Gabon, Cameron, and Nigeria. Over the course of his seven years spent in Tunisia, he embarked on his leadership journey. Risk-taker, inquirer, and adept at vulnerability, he’s been inspired by Michael Fullan, Patrick Lencioni, Rick Wormeli, Elena Aguilar, and Benjamin Zander. In 2018, Philippe joined a world-class team of fierce and resilient Blue Terriers at the International School of Boston, where he now serves as Secondary School Director.

• Trust comes with time
• Critical ways to disconnect from the intense demand of leadership each month
• leveraging compassion and empathy to influence leadership
• Detractors will become your strongest allies
• A sign of a strong leader and what you need to be exposed to early
• Sentences that really change the course of your life 
• Practice mindfulness to support your strategic strategies

“We cannot demand trust. It's not something that can be required or demanded. If you're going to stand in front of a group and say, I need you to trust me on this that cannot be done on the first day, the first week one could argue the first year when people see your patterns, if you are consistent in your approach and the way you communicate in the way you are present, visible and the way you handle difficult, difficult conversations, issues as they arise, then trust will come.” 

-Philippe Caron-Audet

Philippe Caron-Audet Transcript

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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Would you start a business with someone you’ve only met in person once and talked to for about 5 minutes?

Spotlight Trust co-founders Lisa Lambert of Rule Number Six and Rick Kitagawa of Kaiju Coaching did. That’s the power of trust.

Lisa and Rick first met while working remotely as leadership coaches (later head coaches) in Seth Godin’s altMBA. They had the chance to very briefly meet in-person in New York City, but collaborating on Spotlight Trust wasn’t even a seed of an idea at the time.

They later had the chance to work more closely together (remotely) on several initiatives within the Akimbo Workshops and recognized the value in uniting each other’s different perspectives and experiences to tackle a recurring theme in both their paths and one that felt more important than ever: trust. 

Bringing deep leadership experience in their own respective fields and having coached thousands of leaders around the world independently as well as through the altMBA other Akimbo Workshops, Lisa and Rick took the leap to co-found Spotlight Trust in late 2019. Spotlight Trust combines their forces and insights to bring a practical framework for developing trust to leaders and the organizations and communities that rely on those leaders.

Rick Kitagawa brings his creative entrepreneurial background, out-of-the-box thinking, and executive coaching experience and mixes it with his experience of teaching and designing curricula at the university level to the Spotlight Trust.  His ability to unlock the leadership potential in people is only matched by his open mind, his flair for the dramatic, and his love of monsters and mythical creatures.

Lisa Lambert  brings her experience leading special projects and strategic communications on the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation as well as her award-winning facilitation skills to Spotlight Trust. Her ability to navigate complexity, catalyze collaboration, and transform organizations is only matched by her thoughtfulness, her passion for adventure, and love for her two puppers, Bebop and Rocksteady.

• Measuring Trust and the importance of belonging
• Avoid thinking your building trust and other pitfalls
• Trust Framework: Five facets of trust in 3D
• Uncertain times reveals your leadership and provides opportunities to co-create the future
• Know the difference between checking in and checking up on people
• Spotlight Trust future proofs your organization. 
• Questions behind the questions illuminate what you need to be working on at a very practical, measurable level. 

“There's a lot of leaders that are maybe centering around a norm of politeness that's getting in the way from having these really important conversations around a shared purpose. Around where we're seeking to go together.  I would really encourage the leaders. It's not about being polite, it's about being kind, and that kind comes in being direct, being respectful, but sharing that feedback with others, engaging in those conversations, and building that path pathway forward together, and also being really gracious and receiving feedback.”

-Lisa Lambert

Rick Kitagawa and Lisa Lambert Transcript

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Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will help Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning. You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

ORGANIZED BINDER

Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.

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Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD, is a career educational activist with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students.

She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State. With a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate degree in educational leadership, she has an extensive understanding of the components needed to transform the education system.

Dr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education and has served as head of school and principal internationally in countries such as Kuwait, Hungary, and Ecuador. Weaving in a strong emphasis on service and leadership at each school, she has been an educational change agent across the globe. And now as founder of Education Evolution, she aims to disrupt the education climate as we know it to help ensure each child is seen, heard and valued and met where they are academically, socially and emotionally. 

• Mental health must trump any academic gains this year 
• Benefits and challenges of running a micro-school 
• How to avoid copping out when the shoe doesn’t fit your school
• Kindred spirits are your windows of opportunity. Find them, make it official and support them despite uncomfortable colleagues. 
• Valuing outcomes and not requirements
•  Indicators that determine if students are thriving and not surviving

“Our kids are not thriving. And what's the purpose of high school? What's the purpose of school at all, if we're not loving up these kids and then if they're not going out and thriving and loving up the world. We're seeing more hate crimes or seeing more serial murders. School could be a part of helping kids thrive and it's not happening often enough.

Being human is one of the best gifts we can give our teachers and it gives them permission to be human too.”

-Maureen O'Shaughnessy  

Dr Maureen O'Shaughnessy Transcript

• Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids.
• ‎Education Evolution on Apple Podcasts
• Education Evolution | Alternative Education Podcast & Teaching Resources
• Micro-School Coalition: Welcome to MSC
• Education and Micro-School Consulting and Growth Strategies

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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.

ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Curtis Zimmerman has worked two decades as a keynote speaker and consultant, he’s had the honor of developing deep relationships with companies including Kroger, Proctor and Gamble, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Duke Energy, Bacardi and Universal Orlando Resorts—along with The United States Air Force and hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. He also loves working with non-profit organizations and teachers and faculty to give back to the people who have had the biggest impact on his life.

If you're tired of boring virtual conversations and you're ready to get your people excited and invigorated, give him a call. Currently, he is taking all of his experience and putting it together to bring something that nobody else is doing through a hybrid virtual keynote that he’s been sharing with corporations, universities, and school districts. Think TED meets Zoom Meetings! Let's make your next virtual meeting memorable.

• “Brag on it” and more useful tools for leadership
• Take 1-dimensional Zoom and turn it into a 3-dimensional experience
• How to weave Zany and Fun into opportunities while we lead 
• Resume vs Real-a-me
• Join the Virtual School Assembly
• Find and feed the passion of your learning community
• Fail successfully
• Figure out how to make a ruckus in your style
• Doing the activity is different than explaining the activity

“I may not be the best dancer in the world, but it doesn't matter. I'm enjoying myself. My passion is breathing into my dancing and that's what I want to see. Not your technique, your passion, because passion supersedes natural ability.  I want my kids to be passionate. I want my staff to be passionate. I can teach you anything. But the passion that you bring is what really drives the momentum into whatever learning you have...I encourage everyone that's listening to think about how am I going to create a ruckus during my next interaction in my way, in my style.”

-Curtis Zimmerman

“Failing is an event, not a person. The only way you're going to learn to juggle is if you're willing to drop the ball”

-Curtis Zimmerman

Curtis Zimmerman Transcript

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Dr. Vernita Glenn-White is the CEO of Glenn-White Global Solutions and Founder of Empowered Educators Academy © , a company that empowers educators, leaders, and trainers to reach their next level by using their voice and influence to create their own platforms and pathways! Dr. Vernita is a former K-12 mathematics educator, Academic Instructional Coach, and served as a District Specialist for the Office of School Transformation. Dr. Vernita has been an advisor and strategist for leaders from Principals to Superintendents to Universities. Dr. Vernita has used her skills to transition into higher education as a college professor, a national speaker, published author and world traveler. Dr. Vernita now uses her K-20 experience of combining personal empowerment with professional development to shift the perspective of what it means to educate for transformation and impact the training and development industry at a higher level!

• Form boundaries and saying “no” 
• The dangers in making assumptions
• Unpacking everybody's biases to grow emotional intelligence
• Three dynamics of Ed leadership (Educational Leadership)
• What a leader needs to do outside of being the manager
• Leadership content knowledge
• Dig into culturally responsive curriculums, leadership and next steps 
• The blur the lines between social justice and multicultural education

“The first thing I say before you can lead your staff, you need to sit down and identify any bias or your cultural phrase because we all have them. I don't know where we got this from that it is bad to have a bias. We all have them. It's just, what are you doing with it when it comes up, that's where the problem starts.” 

-Dr. Vanita Glenn-White

Dr. Vernita Glenn-White Transcript

• Peace and Justice Institute | Valencia College
•  "21 essential habits of empowered and influential leaders" http://drvernitafreegift.com/
• Dr. V–Empowering Educators
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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Alexs has had a diverse career bringing an innovative eye and heart to the areas of education, literature, business and race. He is an award winning author and a passionate proponent for the renovation of the American public education system by infusing our schools with a focus on the innocence and goodness of their marginalized students, especially students of color. This theme, above all others is interwoven in all of his  literary works as well as his consultative efforts with public and private organizations.

Given an opportunity–one that few writers, scholars and intellectuals are given–to bring an idea that emanated from theoretical work into actual practice, he created the innovative and successful Innocent Classroom™. It brings common sense, empathy, redemptive energy and honesty together and into the classroom.

His  dynamic approach to working with teachers, an approach that enables us to ultimately understand and empathize more effectively with our students, has been honed through more than fifteen years as a energetic and passionate professor. And the professional and effective presentation of his work belies experience in the private sector.

But at the core of this work is a deep belief that our children can be given a quality education in spite of the dire realities both within schools and in the world around them.

• Eliminate racial stereotypes in schools through authentic relationships 
• Powerful Pivot moments that matter 
• Practical changes to make help to “free” your learning community
• Get children to drop involuntary stereotypes that construct their realities 
• Find the source of behavior with strategies to embrace and engage the child 
• Alexs provides a powerful way to “see your children for the first time.” 
• Avoid common adult phrase that misrepresent a child
• “The only valid resistance to Innocent Classroom is if you don't care.”

“I think first of all, it's recognizing that our children are burdened in an enormous way with the negative ideas, iconography, narrative, and images that they're confronted with. And that is bestowed on them as they walk out into the world all the time. One of the first things that we do with educators in our training is to ask them, what does America tell you about students of color, who are sitting in your class? And that list? I mean, we were just asking for one word adjectives at that point. And that list is a horrible, horrible list. Even the positive things don't look good in that list.”

-Alexs Pate

“I'm saying in the case of young kids of color, you're not looking at the real problem. The real problem is almost wholly contained in that child's life. That child came to you with challenges, and then I'm suggesting the American culture has put on them. Your job is to sort of sweep all that away and find that true child. What happens is when a teacher sees a child's goodness, they're good. The thing for which all else has done, they see something different. They see a desire to be cared for. They'd see a desire to feel connected. They see a desire to feel like I belong somewhere to be seen or to be heard, to feel safe.”

-Alexs Pate

Alexs Pate Transcript

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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson is an educational and racial equity strategist that is deeply committed to the studies of culture; innovation; equity and adult development. Since earning her master’s degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Brandeis University, and her doctorate from Harvard’s Educational Leadership Doctorate (Ed.L.D.), Dr. Amante-Jackson has honed her knowledge to transform organizations, nonprofits and schools on issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Dr. Amante-Jackson currently serves as the President/Founder of The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP) and DCCP (DEEP Corporate Consulting Partners) where she supports superintendents, teachers, principals, non profit leaders, corporations, commercial real estate and boards to achieve equitable culture and to systematically dismantle oppression. Additionally, Dr. Amante-Jackson serves at the Tri-Chair to the RIDES Project, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. With RIDES, Dr. Amante-Jackson supports systemic and school based cultural change and coaching for districts, nationally.

• The gap between diversity and inclusion is as wide as the Grand Canyon, but a bridge exists
• Proven frameworks, roadmaps and data to measure impact paired with implicit bias training 
• Make your learning community feel championed for and communicate areas of marginalization they experience
• “Belonging” is actually the sweet spot for this pandemic
• Sit successfully in the uncertainty with these practical tools that work both virtually and in person
• Diversity, belonging, inclusion, and equity, DBIE has to be the table and you sit everything on top of
• Why urgency with the absence of competency is harmful

“Belonging is the greatest thing that closes the gap. Please know that gap didn't arrive in one school year and it's not going to go away in one school year. Your commitment to belonging will continue to bring your community together, which is what you will need to close the gap one day to do culturally responsive teaching. “

Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson Transcript

• What's in a Name? – School Reform Initiative
• Disruptive Equity Education Project

• Darnisa Amante-Jackson 
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ORGANIZED BINDER

• Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
• Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
• Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
• Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/

SMART

SMART Technologies is the proud sponsor of Better Leaders Better Schools and has two amazing offer for Ruckus Makers.

The SMART Learning Suite Online allows teachers to create, store, and deliver lessons from anywhere – no SMART Board required – and your students can access and engage with your content from any web browser on any device. And it connects with tools you already use like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Learn more at http://www.smarttech.com/learningsuite

The research-backed EdTeach Assessment Tool will helps Ruckus Makers discover their strengths and best area of focus across 5 different modules, including leadership and remote learning.  The tool inspires collaboration with your colleagues, and provides massive value whether you complete one or all five of the modules. 

You’ll get a personalized report that shows where you stack up against other leaders, and maps some areas of focus that will have the greatest impact for you. 

Take the assessment at http://www.smarttech.com/profile

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David Price, OBE, is a global thought leader, learning futurist and author, specialising in how organisations learn, innovate and make themselves fit for the future.

He is a highly sought-after public speaker, entertaining and educating audiences around the world, in business, education and the public sector. His most recent book, OPEN: How We'll Work, Live And Learn In The Future has been an Amazon best-seller since its publication and has recently been translated into Russian. 

David is also a highly experienced trainer, having spent 20 years running workshops and masterclasses in people development, organisational learning, innovation strategies, as well as a host of training events for schools, colleges and universities.

In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to education, by Her Majesty The Queen.

He consults and advises corporations, governments and education leaders on preparing for future shifts in work, leisure and the digitally connected world. He is passionate about helping people fulfill their true potential, most notably by tackling the global epidemic of disengagement - in the workplace, and in formal education.

As a former professional musician, and a native of Jarrow in the North-East of England, David is used to travelling to find work, spending two-thirds of the year on the road. When he isn't moving, he's to be found in Leeds, in the UK.

• “Playing without the music” can transform learning opportunities and unleash the gifts of your students
• Communities are outperforming bureaucracies:Foster innovation because innovation comes from the users and 
• Don’t inadvertently snuff out the inherent creativity because of poor leadership. Be brave enough to create a culture about autonomy and agency
• Rethink learning so it develops a pedagogy of agency 
• Automatic competition impedes open collaboration and innovation in a community

“I think with COVID, it's really heightened the need, now that people have to be creative, to make things, whether that's sourdough bread or craft beer, there is something in us, which is now coming to the fore. The really interesting part of it now, partly through necessity because sadly, a lot of people in the UK are losing their jobs and they're thinking, well, what should I do? ... we need to prepare our young people as much to be kind of entrepreneurs.”

“One is how do we create an internal culture for educators so that they feel that they can be creative. Part two is how do we create the right kind of culture and environment for our students so that they feel that it isn't about getting the right answer, but it's about being, being creative and making and producing things.” 

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