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Scott Seider is an applied developmental psychologist whose research focuses on the role of schools in supporting adolescents’ civic development. He has reported on this work in more than 70 academic publications including Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice (Harvard Education Press, 2020). Findings from this five-year study of youth critical consciousness development have also been published in academic journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

As a core faculty member in the Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology department at the Lynch School, Dr. Seider teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on adolescent development. He also serves on advisory boards for a number of different youth-serving organizations including EL (Expeditionary Learning) Education, the Journal of Adolescent Research, and the Center for Parent & Teen Communication.

Prior to joining the Boston College faculty, Dr. Seider worked as a teacher-educator at Boston University and as an English teacher in the Boston Public Schools and Westwood Public Schools.

Daren Graves is currently the director of the Urban Master's Program at Simmons College. As a teacher educator, he is committed to preparing teachers who see urban youth as assets in the teaching and learning process. His research interest involves the interplay of school culture and racial identity on the academic performance of Black adolescents. Graves' research has given him an understanding of the issues that Boston-area youth face inside and outside of their school environments. Graves previously served as assistant director at Simmons College Upward Bound in Boston, where he helped coordinate the academic and college preparation components of this federally funded after-school and summer program.

• Recognize systems of oppression in your school
• Stop controlling bodies in your building and form partnerships 
• Identifies uplifting practices for engaging young people 
• Links between critical consciousness and academic achievement
• Create project based learning that transforms the entire community
• Tips on redefining good teaching

We need people to be critically conscious in order to go out and reduce oppression within their communities and to transform society.

-Scott Seider

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• Schooling for Critical Consciousness: 

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• (@ScottSeider) | Twitter
• Darren Graves | Facebook
• Schooling for Critical Consciousness - Posts | Facebook
• Daren Graves - LinkedIn

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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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

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Angela Kelly Robeck is a best-selling author and certified life coach for school leaders. She helps site and district leaders navigate the mental and emotional demands of the job. A former teacher, coach, principal and district administrator, Angela deeply understands the toll of school leadership and it is her mission to empower leaders through the use of effective mindset tools.

• STEAR your personal and professional lives into one human
• Live the work you want to lead to eliminate fear
• Stop carrying the weight of leadership alone 
• Become an observant leader and not an emotional one
• Holding people accountable is fun!! Inspiring mutually accountable partners
• How to get to the root of the problem
• Write your own leadership story-Empowered Principal Mastermind

“We are so so busy being busy that we don't believe that it's possible to stop and reflect and take the time to think about what's even driving our actions.”

-Angela

Angela Kelly Robeck Transcript

• Empowered Principle as a free download https://amzn.to/2TvBpWs
• Angela Kelly Coaching: Home

• Angela Kelly Robeck – The Life Coach School
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram 
• LinkedIn
• angelakellycoaching.com

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap
• Join “The Mastermind”
• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Rick earned a bachelor’s degree in adolescent education/social studies from Fredonia State University in New York. He has a master’s degree in adolescent education from Oneonta State College, also in New York. He earned a certificate of advanced studies in educational leadership from Binghamton University in New York. 

He was a middle and high school teacher in upstate New York for eight years before coming to Charlotte. He completed his principal residency at Albemarle Road Elementary through New Leaders and spent three years as an assistant principal at Shamrock Gardens Elementary. In all, he has been in education for 14 years, two of those as a school principal.

His educational philosophy is this: No significant learning will take place without strong relationships between the student, teacher and family.  Our role as a school is to build, engage, and enhance these relationships.  With these relationships in place, we must provide unique learning experiences that allow students to create authentic representations of their learning and share them with a diverse audience.

He is also the proud father of a son, Lincoln, who will be a CMS kindergartner next year!

• Avoid getting burned by the “little fires” and other disruptors to your schedule
• The Who? What? Where? When? Why? And How” to linking personal and professional scheduling 
• How to find your Frodo and Gandalf accountability partner
• Tips to steal time and maximize your minutes for an ideal week. 
• What matters has to be public.  Learn why leaders shouldn’t plan in isolation.
• Backward design planning creates your ideal leadership schedule

“Everybody wants to be more focused but I think in the end I don't know how many different task managers or to-do list apps that I've downloaded or tried. In the end  it's not about the app, it's about the actual habits. You've got to build the habits and that's what I'm trying to do.  How do I build those habits versus how do I find the tool that's going to fix it all because there's not a tool that's going to solve it.”

- Rick Mohrein

Rick Mohrein Transcript

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
• Twitter
• Facebook
• [email protected].

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap
• Join “The Mastermind”
• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Robyn Jackson is a former high school teacher and middle school administrator. She is the founder and president of Mindsteps Inc., a professional development firm for teachers and administrators that provides workshops and materials designed to help any teacher reach every student. 

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching, The Differentiation Workbook, and The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers, as well as the how-to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

• Learn Robyn’s practice on how to take the first steps towards your true calling 
• Ensure you have the right “why” so you're driven by the right intentions 
• When your brain is fresh, your brain tells you the truth 
• Create a bold vision with 100% impact 
• How to write a vision and mission to fit you and your district 
• Reimagine traditional school leadership. Go from being a boss to a leader using Robyn’s Builders lab
• Why you need to find your zone of genius and operate on the edges

“One of the reasons I love this concept of being a Ruckus Maker, it's I think more of us should be making a ruckus. Education is in trouble. More of us should be making a ruckus about how we're teaching students, how we are running schools, how we're building schools, but instead we're just kind of blindly following a path and a model that no longer serves us.”

-Robyn

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• Mindsteps Inc.: Home
• Builders Lab
• • • Office  1 888-565-8881

• The Artist's Way Morning Pages
• School Leadership Reimagined on Apple Podcasts
• Robyn's books: https://amzn.to/2WGkAJ3
• (@Robyn_Mindsteps) | Twitter
• LinkedIn

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Dr. Tracey A. Benson is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a former public school teacher, middle school assistant principal, and high school principal. 

• Journey on a racial awakening with Tracey
• Addressing the color of punishment in the continuum of learning 
• How to have a color rich school with concrete solutions 
• Investigate your own behavior and coded language to shape racially literate young people
• How leaders can put out fires of unconscious bias?
• Tracey’s equitable solutions to improving academic achievement for students of color
• Learn to track patterns and blind spots of racial disparity and ingested bias

“I was subconsciously teaching them that they have privilege and that they were above the rules. They would get upset because they had privilege and when someone has privilege, equity feels like oppression.”

- Dr. Tracey Benson

246: Dr. Tracey Benson Transcript

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• Unconscious Bias in Schools: 

• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”

• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Jazz Rose is the founder of J and C Education & Academy. He started in 2004 teaching PE in primary schools. Following demand, Jazz has grown a team of specialist PE, Music, French, Spanish, Art and Drama teachers committed to embedding a passion for learning, empowering learners to develop confidence, creativity and critical thinking, developing the whole child; improving schools and enriching communities.

• Justified risks 3 column scenario checklist. 
• J and C Education energizes your teachers and students with essential time and skills 
• Teach children to be flexible and adaptive in an ever changing and evolving society
• Get on your toes to be successful
• Effective techniques that teachers can use to really engage children and unlock hidden potential 
• How to channel the energy of students mislabeled as bad behavior
• Find the juices of cross-curricular/Integrated learning with confidence

“When children develop a passion for learning, they can learn anything and when they can learn anything, they can perform better at anything. The theme of continuous improvement is about always getting better no matter where you're at.”

-Jazz Rose  

246: Jazz Rose Passion for Learning

• Jazz Rose (@MrJazzRose)
• J and C Education
• https://t.co/h7VGhQqaGL?amp=1

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”
• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Sachin Chaudhry is an Ashoka Fellow - The ChangeMaker and the Founder/CEO of TrustCircle. Sachin also serves as a Global Advisor for the 'Movement for Global Mental Health.’ Sachin has started a global wellbeing movement via TrustCircle with a focus on Social Emotional Learning, Prevention & Early Intervention. Sachin envisions a world where Social-Emotional Learning is a core to our education system. 

• Sachin’s transformational pilgrimage of pain
• Find opportunity in every crisis.
• How a modern school leader creates a space of reflection for the learning community 
• Understanding the roots of risk, not just the symptoms 
• Trust Circle’s 3 Ps that inspire targeted productive actions
• Tools that create a bridge connecting students with themselves and inspiring them to seek out help from trusted adults
• You are never alone. Trust Circle’s technology connects people during the Covid-19 pandemic

“...priority would be for me to empower the administrators because administrators are the engine of the school and the administrators have the power and the influence to inspire change.”

-Sachin Chaudhry

Bonus- How TrustCircle can help during COVID-19

• How TrustCirlce can foster wellbeing amidst COVID-19
• TrustCircle Overview Document

• TrustCircle Website
• TrustCircle (@trustcircle)
• Trustcircle.co - Home
• TrustCircle
• Email Sachin

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

• Join “The Mastermind”
• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC

Amy Platt is delighted to be the Head of School at the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Amy is passionate about excellent instruction and working with teachers to be the talented professionals they are destined to be. Amy holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Toronto. When Amy is not at work she can be found on long-distance bike rides, pondering the larger issues facing education.

• Education is better with ice cream
• Challenge will make you better
• Everybody needs a mantra

• The cornerstone of what you're building is formed around knowing your vision, mission AND values.
• Learn how Amy overcame feeling sidelined as a leader
• Amy shares leadership principles, mental endurance and benefits of creativity
• Go at the big hills in life and in leadership if you expect growth and strength
• Amy tells how the Mastermind community transforms leadership

“I just want the Ruckus Maker to know that they can take any mundane moment and make it powerful if they really use the factors that are there to help transform moments.”

-Amy Platt

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• Decision Journal
• Braving the Wilderness
• Daring Greatly
• The Power of Moments
• LinkedIn
• Decision Journal

• Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap
• Join “The Mastermind”
• Read the latest on the blog

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/

TEACHFX

School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently. 

Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.

Copyright © 2020 Better Leaders Better Schools