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Ep #300: Your Emotions Are Valid Sep 26, 2023

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Our emotions are the hardest thing we have to navigate as school leaders and humans in general. What's often difficult about anything we're finding hard or challenging, whether in your career or personal life, is the way it feels. That's why, on this episode, I'm sharing the art of processing your emotions.

Discover why we tend to resist or avoid negative emotions and how there is validity in every single emotion you experience. Hear why I suggest inviting those emotions in, how we play small when we push emotions away, and what to do when your body is flooded with an intense emotion that feels uncomfortable.

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Ep #299: Make Peace with Time Sep 19, 2023

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We've been led to believe that we need to have a combative relationship with time. We say things like, "I don't have time," or "Time slipped away from me," and we use time as a scapegoat for why we're unhappy or for not accomplishing the things we truly want to do. The truth is we've been sold on this oppressive framework of time, but we can begin building a beautiful relationship with it instead.

Learn how to make peace with time once and for all. Hear about the false narratives we repeat about our time and energy, how they're holding you back, why your battle with time isn't with time itself, and how to stop going to war with time so you can instead learn to understand, love, and show compassion for it.

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Ep #298: How to Leverage Systems to Become a Better School Leader with Katie Novak and Kristan Rodriguez Sep 12, 2023

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This week, I'm joined by Katie Novak and Kristan Rodriguez to have an important conversation about how leveraging systems can help you become a better school leader. Katie is the founder and executive director of Novak Education: an organization renowned for designing and delivering professional development on UDL, MTSS, and leadership practices. Kristan is the founder of Commonwealth Consulting Agency LLC: an organization dedicated to providing professional development, training, and consulting services to educational organizations and agencies.

Hear why systems play a vital role in providing everyone within your school with what they need to be wildly successful. Katie and Kristan are sharing how their work helps school leaders leverage systems that support both students and staff, and how you can begin practicing thoughtful assessments of what systems are working towards your vision and which aren't.

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Ep #297: Mastering Your Time: Attending Meetings and Scheduling Substitutes Sep 05, 2023

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As school leaders, you live in a world of meetings, whether that's with teachers, parents, stakeholders, or your district – the list goes on. Another pain point that many principals experience is spending time securing substitute teachers. While these aspects of your job might make you think you're losing valuable time, I'm offering you a more empowered way to think about these situations today.

Discover how you are in control of your time, even if it might not feel like it right now. Hear why you don't actually have to do anything you don't want to, my process for making the most empowered choice, and the energetic shift that happens when you love your reasons for doing anything.

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Ep #296: The Student Journey Experience Aug 29, 2023

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This week, I'm sharing an exercise that I developed with one of my clients at the end of last year. The purpose of this exercise is to bring your focus back on who you're here to serve: your students. You have to consider what needs to be in place for them to be successful, and I'm breaking it all down for you on this episode.

Discover why the Student Journey Experience exercise is one of the most powerful things you can do with your staff. Hear how it can also be applied at the district level, the key questions to consider as you run with this exercise, and how, by focusing on the student journey, you also hone in on the experience you are creating for yourselves as educators.

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Ep #295: The Value of Meeting with Teachers Aug 22, 2023

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You likely intellectually understand the power of meeting with your teachers. It's a solid practice that serves your entire school community. However, you also probably realize that it's one of the first things to fall off your plate as the year ramps up and things get busy. Regardless of emergencies, student disciplinary issues, or parent meetings, you can make time for it, and I'm here to show you how.

Hear all the reasons why planning and prioritizing regular check-ins with your teachers are incredibly valuable. I'm sharing why you have to spend your time the way you spend money, why proactively meeting with your teachers prevents issues at the end of the year, and how regularly meeting with your teachers puts you in control of your time.

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Ep #294: Your Decision Lens Aug 15, 2023

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No matter how big or small, you make every decision through what I call a 'decision lens.' Your decision lens is essentially composed of a set of values and priorities that you use to determine the decisions you're going to make.

Discover why gaining awareness of the decision lens you're using has to be your top priority as a school leader. Learn about how we sometimes slip into making emotion-based decisions rather than value-based decisions, the consequences of doing so, and how to begin using your decision lens to make the most aligned decisions for both your personal and professional life.

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Ep #293: The Value of Vulnerability with Erin Bowlby Aug 08, 2023

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Erin Bowlby has been in the education world for 13 years, but she started her school principalship journey a year ago. She knew she needed help and support as she navigated school leadership for the first time, and she's rewinding her experience all the way back to the beginning to offer some nuggets of wisdom she's discovered along the way.

If you're an aspiring leader like Erin, navigating the waters of school leadership for the first time, listen in. Erin is sharing her journey of embracing being new, the value of modeling vulnerability as a school leader, some of the challenges and wins she's experienced, and how our coaching together helped bring the spark back to principalship.

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Ep #292: Embracing and Announcing Change Aug 01, 2023

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As the school principal, you are often the middle person between the district officials who make decisions and your staff, teachers, and students. There are times when you'll be excited to announce changes being made at the district level because you can see the potential value or rationale behind them. But what do you do when you're presented with changes you aren't on board with?

Hear five strategies you can implement when you're faced with changes you don't agree with, how to stop letting your brain make this a problem, and why it's your job as a school leader to sell yourself on changes.

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Ep #291: Your Most Powerful Leadership Strategy (Back to Basics) Jul 25, 2023

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What makes a truly good leader? How can you create a legacy while maintaining your sustainability as an impactful leader? Is there a specific skill set you can learn to be a valuable and effective school leader without falling prey to overwhelm and burnout?

Learn about the one thing we tend to ignore and downplay that has the power to skyrocket your influence as a school leader. This magical skillset is what your ability to lead others depends on, and is what will make you a valuable, effective, and empowered school leader.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/291

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