If you are feeling overwhelmed, first step is to take a step back from working in your school during the day to day grind, & take time to work on your school, solving strategic issues, making big decisions that make the day to day grind work easier: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

“I don’t have the time right now to work growing as a Builder” is really a way of saying “It’s not my priority.” #SchoolLeadershipReimagined

What if, instead of waiting until this summer, you right now started looking at the key systems in your school, analyzing those systems and understanding why they were either working/not working and begin putting things in place: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

If you are grinding it out thinking you’ll deal with the strategic stuff later, you’re really using your work to hide from making key decisions. #SchoolLeadershipReimagined

Next school year is being built right now. If you wait until the summer to work on your school, it’s really too late. #SchoolLeadershipReimagined

The thing that you need to be doing, the decisions that you need to be making that solve things now and put you in a better position set you up for success next year are getting made right now. Discover how to overcome overwhelm #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

We think we feel overwhelmed because there's so much work to do. But in reality, the reason that we feel overwhelmed, the source, the root of it is that we have unmade decision.Overcome overwhelm #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

The reason we feel overwhelmed is because we’re carrying around unmade decisions. #SchoolLeadershipReimagined

Are you working ON your school or IN your school? #SchoolLeadershipReimagined

You don't fix overwhelmed by putting off the work that you really should be doing because you're so overwhelmed with the work you kind of have to do. Discover how to overcome overwhelm #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

Is it just me or is everybody feeling a little overwhelmed lately? Maybe it’s the time of year, or maybe feeling overwhelmed is just the new normal, but it seems like it’s relentless right now. Discover how to overcome overwhelm #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode257

Somebody needs to hear this: You don’t have to play the super hero in order to be an effective principal.

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Most of the time, our quote unquote support does not feel supportive. So we need to do something different. Discover how you can offer teachers the exact support they need every time #LikeABuilder : schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode256

The moment you stop trying to fix teachers and truly support them is the moment they become partners instead of projects.

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We need to stop treating teachers as if they are broken and it’s our job to fix them. That’s not support.

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Going into a classroom and saying here are all the things that are broken about your practice and here is the solution to all the things that are broken to your practice, doesn't feel supportive. And yet that's the model that we were trained on: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode256

The way we were trained to support teachers often creates resentment on both sides.

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We tend to feed what we need. In other words, we often offer teachers the support WE would want if we were in their shoes rather than the support they actually need.

Have you ever provided really great support for a teacher and the teacher didn’t appreciate it? If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything you can to support teachers and they don’t appreciate it, today’s episode is for you: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode256

If you're expecting teachers to differentiate and use the strategies of differentiation, use those same strategies for differentiation for the professional development that you're providing for teachers so that you can give teachers what they need: schoolleadershipreimagined.com/episode255