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Say What You Mean In a Meaningful Way: Building Your Communication Skills with Intent and Action.
When you lead with grace and authenticity, it shows up in your words. ...every single one of them. Clarity in communication grows over time, and takes practice and learning from mistakes. Learning how to build communication skills and put them into action will elevate...
Be The Change You Wish To See: Revising Meetings to Be Meaningful
The meeting before, during, or after the meeting. Don’t deny it; we have all been a part of the pre-or post-meeting meeting. You meet formally, follow the agenda, make decisions and adjourn. But then a small group meets after, sends texts, or starts a call chain...
Learning to Lead with Grace by Leaning into Vulnerability.
Whoops, Oh No, Shoot, Ugh. Mistakes. We all make them, we might cringe in reflection of one, and hopefully, we can all learn from them. From saying the wrong thing in a meeting, tweeting something that was misspelled, slipping on a patch of ice in front of a...
Permission to Rest: Recalibrating Before The Upcoming School Year.
This is not the year to be it all, do it all, and be it all for everyone. Actually, this might be the year to bury that mindset for good. Recalibrating your perspective of taking care of everyone else first to taking care of yourself first is going to be essential in sustaining the changes this year will bring. Admitting you need help, you don’t know it all, or you can’t do it all is the first right step.
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Jessica is the Principal of Alternative Educations Programs in Austin, Minnesota. Previously, she was the principal of Ellis Middle School in Austin, Minnesota, and the principal of the “Happiest Place in Southeastern Minnesota,” the Woodson Kindergarten Center.
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