Welcome back to The Virtual Principal! My guest, Principal Chanavia Patterson, and I are continuing our series of discussions on Planning For The New School Year. Today we're talking about communication.
Chanavia Patterson is a native Detroiter that has devoted her career to serving in the educational capacity. After several successful years of teaching, Chanavia felt the urge to impact more students than the 30 that sat in her classroom. She began to shift her gift of educating not only students but also teachers. Chanavia has served her community as a teacher, coach, AP, Principal, and Director of School Quality, with the specific focus of leading with love and engaging students academically. Under her leadership, she significantly closed the achievement gap in her school within 3 years. As a result, Chanavia was named Michigan’s Principal of the Year (2017). She has been featured in Black Enterprise and Forbes for her work as a school leader.
Currently, Chanavia serves as the Chief Leadership Officer of Principal Patterson Leadership Services, serving aspiring and current school leaders. Chanavia’s goal is to help women become instructional leaders, specializing in urban school development and transformations.
[01:14] Opening Segment
- Principal Patterson tells us about herself
[03:25] What Does Good Communication Look Like?
- The 4 pillars of communication: communicating purpose, growing people, charting the path, and executing plans
- The first line of communication for a new school year
[07:12] Executing Communication with Teachers, Parents, and Students
- Tools to communicate with teachers
- Communicating with parents
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- Communicating with our students
[18:31] Building a Consistent Communication Process
- Principal Patterson’s communication framework: buy-in, action, accountability, and results
[22:17] Closing Up!
- Follow Principal Patterson. Links Below
Key Quotes:
“We need to ensure that we are communicating our purpose, how we are going to grow our people, how we are going to chart that path and then execute our plans.” - Chanavia Patterson
“The first line of communication is identifying the difference between what's important and what's urgent.” - Chanavia Patterson
Connect with Chanavia Patterson on LinkedIn (in/chanavia-patterson), Instagram (principalpatterson), and Facebook (principalpatterson1)
Visit her website: https://principalpatterson.com
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