Adaptability/Growth Mindset
Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in world of education
How did you get involved in education? What made you bring that to Epic?
PR background - unfulfilled
Love for missions and working with students
Alt Cert - Cutting edge of what the future of education looks like
Why did you suggest this topic?
Pace of change on the rise. Pro...
Adaptability/Growth Mindset
Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in world of education
How did you get involved in education? What made you bring that to Epic?
PR background - unfulfilled
Love for missions and working with students
Alt Cert - Cutting edge of what the future of education looks like
Why did you suggest this topic?
Pace of change on the rise. Problem - adapt or die.
The solution -creating and sustaining change in a volatile environment requires creative leadership.How do we develop leadership capabilities (competitive capacity and lifelong learning….or the adoption of a growth mindset)
Growth Mindset - a mindset is a set of assumptions, methods, or notations held by a person or group of people that arise out of a person's worldview or philosophy of life. Happiness and Grit and cheap...do a physical exercise on this...whats it look like or feel like? We train our brain for this. You are not stuck.
Living with intention. Creating space for incremental change through learning, reflection, and application. Eradicating or moving through fear. Collaborating with others for honest feedback. Open to new ideas and discovery of multiple perspectives. Never expecting to know it all. Always on a quest to discover more. As educators we MUST model this. Embody this. Before expecting this of our teams, students, families, etc.
Book - John Cotter -
Overcoming Childhood trauma - the solution to helping them most lies in their stories.
Tatum with fraction, decimals, percents
Parents have new plans coming at them based on whether or not the original plan is working
Teachers have new plans each year, add a new curriculum they arent used to, Epic Esspenials,
Administrators - Growth at 50-60% each year. How on earth can you forecast for this? How do you put plans into place for this?
Neural associations or pathways may need to be retraced to allow for positivity. Surfing and learning story from Tony Robbins (Day 3 Module 2)
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Tune in next week where we are rethinking how leadership and education can better prepare the next generation for a rapidly evolving world.
