BONUS Extended Episode: How YOU can build a positive school culture, no matter where you teach
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
BONUS extended episode! Join Jimmy Casas, Krysta DeBoer, Hope King, and Amber Teamann as they share a behind-the-scenes glimpse into schools that have reflected carefully on school culture and created systems that work. Learn practical, actionable tips for supporting kids and colleagues, winning over negative co-workers, creating change in toxic school environments even when no one else is supporting you, and more.
Highlights include:
(5:45) What a positive school culture looks like
(21:00) How school leaders can support staff and how teachers can support one another
(35:35) How to work with colleagues who are negative and don't share the positive vision
(40:00) The #1 thing teachers in positive school cultures do to keep it all about the kids
(48:45) What one individual teacher can do to create change even in a toxic school culture
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the first bonus extended episode of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized |
| 0:15.7 | for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.7 | Today we're going to be talking in depth about how to build a positive school culture. So I hope everyone's summer is off to a great start. It |
| 0:25.2 | feels really weird not to be podcasting with you each week but I'm using the |
| 0:29.4 | break between season one of Truth for Teachers and Season 2, which begins August 2nd, to work on some other projects, and that's been really great. |
| 0:38.0 | And of course, I've been able to also plan some bonus episodes. |
| 0:41.0 | So each month in between podcast seasons I'm going to do a |
| 0:44.2 | longer more casual episode where I invite guests to help me really dig deeply |
| 0:49.2 | into a topic that is important for teachers. So this is the first of those bonus extended episodes. |
| 0:55.2 | And I wanted to use it to talk about school culture. |
| 0:58.7 | And I've tried to pick panelists that represent |
| 1:00.9 | different areas of the country and different grade levels, different types of communities, you know, rural, urban, suburban. |
| 1:07.6 | And I wanted to have people in a wide variety of positions represented. |
| 1:11.3 | I wanted to have someone who's in the classroom, an instructional |
| 1:15.2 | coach, an assistant principal, and also a principal. So I'm really honored to be joined |
| 1:20.6 | by four educators who I have long admired for doing that hard work of transforming |
| 1:26.1 | school culture and I know they're going to have a lot of really practical insight for you all. |
| 1:30.4 | So whether you love the place that you work and you just want to keep making it better or whether you have kind of a toxic school environment and you want to know how to create change. |
| 1:39.0 | This podcast will be for you and we're hoping to give you some really practical ideas to walk away |
| 1:43.7 | with. So I'm going to pause for a moment now and let our guests introduce themselves. |
| 1:48.3 | So Amber I want to start with you. Your experience so far has been as a teacher and as an assistant principal but |
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