2024-07-25
Guest Speaker: Gina Davenport Yes, that Gina Davenport
- Inappropriate comments by students
- Teaching values and SEL
- Global community citizenship is required for all students.
- What makes you feel othered? Asking the students so they can share what they’re doing.
- Takes courage to have these conversations.
- One of the biggest ways to build trust is to trust!
- “I don’t follow the code of conduct” - bias comes into the interpretation. Student success and safety.
- Discipline is going to building relationships instead of breaking relationships.
- Not support
2024-07-23
Guest Speaker: Grace Lee
- The Ferguson Effect
- Constant discipline. Connected to Dr. Kashina Bell.
- Do not create the plan without the team.
- Don’t leave the kids out of the picture.
- Catalyst to change was giving voice to our kids.
- EJAIC
- School board members really don’t know much about education (which is understandable because they are )
2024-07-18
- Space Join Link: https://app.schoolai.com/space?code=AYJE
- Share Space Link: https://app.schoolai.com/spaces/clyqnjcnc00gtkhmwww78iyty
- My Assignment Link: https://drjethro.com/coursework/educ-7630-assignment-2/
- Enhance learning, not circumvent learning.
2024-07-16
Tracy Smith - Just finished her doctorate
- What would she do differently if she could do it again - Make sure people understand the WHY
- Dissertation focused on PD - what do staff need to be successful? Focused on hard-to-staff schools.
- Perseverance
- Don’t go in with something to prove
- People saw me, so I didn’t have to have so many meetings.
- What does she wish she had known when she was at UMSL as a student?
- 3rd year, just writing. Meeting weekly with Chair Sheryl - Non Profit Expertise
- People skills are important.
- Money Skills are important.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hesselbein
- https://amzn.to/468ipBk by Leslie R. Crutchfield (Author), Heather McLeod Grant (Author)
- Build Rapport and Trust. https://amzn.to/3LpyfOH
- Books by Edgar Schein https://amzn.to/4d5tQvS
2024-07-11
- Library at UMSL - go to Databases first.
- Best Bets - good place to start
- You can choose databases in ebscohost
- CleanShot 2024-07-11 at 18.41.19@2x.png
Solving Problems
- It’s about how decisions are made.
- Be explicit about who is responsible for the decision: My decision, your decision, our decision
2024-07-09
- Fatima Salas Rodriguez
- Homework
- VIA Assessment from 2018. Should I take another? StrengthsProfile-Jethro-Jones.pdf
- Top 5 strengths: spirituality, perspective, creativity, forgiveness, humor
Assignments
- EDUC 7630 Assignment 1
- EDUC 7630 Assignment 2
- Book Review The Principal as Chief Empathy Officer by Dr. Thomas Hoerr
- EDUC 7630 Reactions for week 3
- educ 7630 meritocracy thoughts
resources
VirtuesFF.docx