Ellen Mary Hickman (Turing School of Software & Design)
Episode 37 · October 25th, 2019 · 48 mins 4 secs
About this Episode
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Ellen Mary talk about:
- Group dynamics and being a younger sibling
- Leadership in a classroom of 4th graders
- Self care when there are no filters on what your students say and do
- Moving into teaching reform work
- The role of process and where it isn't enough
- Being uncomfortable and why you had better get used to it
- Identifying the "language of value" for your audience
- Wearing many, MANY hats as a Senior Director
- How managing and disciplining and firing teachers differs from other industries
- Why an effective hiring process is crucial because of the above
- How leadership in the classroom is different from just giving a lecture
- Setting up a team to support addressing conflicts
- How real leaders shouldn't need to 'wield' authority
You can find Ellen Mary on LinkedIn as emhickmann :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3