171- From Principal to Author with Lana Penley

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Lana Penley was a former Principal, and now stands at the forefront of Social and Emotional Learning. She is an author and CEO of Unlocking SEL. We discuss her time in administration and her new book Unlocking SEL: The 5 Keys to Transform Your School Through Social and Emotional Learning. Find Lana on Linkedin. Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:04.6	She started her teaching career in 2014. She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:13.7	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.
0:22.8	Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,
0:28.0	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.6	Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:34.8	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast.
0:40.4	You can find us on all your social channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Hi, and welcome back to our next
0:49.6	episode. Today I'm so excited for you to meet Lana Penley. Lana Penley. Lana is a former principal,
0:57.3	and she stands at the forefront of social and emotional learning. She recently wrote a new book,
1:04.1	and is the CEO and co-founder of unlocking SEL. Today we learn about her experience in education, her passion for SEL, and how she
1:15.4	supports schools today with her methods on focusing on this social and emotional learning
1:20.4	on students and adults, first and foremost. Hope you enjoy this episode. Well, welcome, everyone. We're so excited to have
1:30.1	Lana with us today. Welcome, Lana. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited
1:35.4	to chat with you today. Well, we are looking forward to hearing your story, and we love to start
1:41.8	these off by hearing a little bit about your experience in education.
1:46.4	Well, like you said, my name is Lana Pinley. I'm a former principal turned CEO of my company,
1:52.4	unlocking SCL. And basically, I help schools and classrooms around the country implement
1:57.9	social and emotional learning to really increase positive student
2:02.1	outcomes and also decrease teacher burnout. That's very important. So I'm an author, keynote speaker,
2:08.2	teacher, learner. I like to say I'm an avid pickleball player. There's probably some other people
2:12.5	out there, a wife, daughter, sister, friend, and mom to two poodle mixes.
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