Don’t try to change people, try to change behavior.

Tom Hierck can be found at his web site.

• superintendent department of ed, 34 years in education.
• Great educators all over the place.
• Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom
• I have yet to meet a kid who is connected who disappoints.
• If you build them, they will learn.
• Learn every kid’s DNA, Dreams, Needs, Abilities
• Start with something simple.
• Every kid wants adult time and we should make that positive.
• Focus on the kids
• Kids don’t get consequenced to better behavior.
• Don’t try to change people, try to change behavior.
• Have adult conversations about what we are going to do with kids.
• You can’t manage every classroom from your office.
• Be the “Judicious Parent”
• What is managed within and what is managed without the classroom.
• The difference between rules and expectations.
• What it looks like, feels, like, sounds like.
• If we don’t model what we expect, then we should expect what we model.
• How to work with challenging team members?
• If everyone is nodding their head in agreement, you know somebody is leaving in disagreement.
• Sometimes, we just follow someone and deal with what they left behind.
• Leadership Rule #1, whether you create it or condone it, you own it.
• How to deal with the comfortable, but not good.
• Get clarity on our purpose.
• Knowing the skills you have, how do you see that aligning with our purpose.
• When it gets tough, we will turn to each other when we have clarity of purpose.
• We do construction work in times of calm.
• Ineffective practices = easy.
• We have to get to the hard stuff and be willing to get messy to service 100 % of our kids.
• How to find time. We make time for what we really believe.
• Good collaboration takes time, but Bad collaborations takes even more time.
• Chase time doesn’t work
• How to be a transformative principal? Ensure that relationships are healthy and positive. Being positive doesn’t guarantee a good outcome, but being negative does guarantee a negative outcome.

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