1. A Day in the Life of a Principal

2. Every Day is an Education!
New experiences every day
New words every day - gender queer, non binary
New challenges – that is why it is a great role!

3. Laslo Bock – Google’s Head of People Operations
“successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from failure.”

4. Learning ability is more important than IQ – Google and many other professions today look for cognitive ability – not IQ but the ability to learn – the ability to learn as you go.

5. Sometimes the job feels like this –because you have ultimate accountability - how you manage being the target is one of the most important aspects of leadership.

6. The Role – Its not what you think!
Its not about curriculum, class size, finance, property, IT, budgets, performance management, assessment ….
Its about who you are, your beliefs, values and principles that drive your passion and decision making

7. The Stakeholders Who are the stakeholders?
What are they expecting of you?
How are they expecting you to interact with them?

8. It is easy to get lost in the milieu of the day to day activity - have a higher set of principles – what are yours?

9. My Key Principles
Moral sense of purpose
Building relationships
Coherence making
Creating knowledge and sharing
Understanding change

11. Good ideas come from talented people working together.

12. The wisdom to solve problems exists and can be discovered within each and every school community.

13. Design more than engineer, discover more than dictate, and decipher more than presuppose.

14. It’s not where you are from it’s where you are going;
It’s not what you drive
it’s what drives you;
It’s not what you think
it’s what you do;
It’s not who you were
it’s who you become;
It’s not who you know
its who you are.
Michael Josephson