Whitney Poper

Don’t take our word for it. Hear it from one of our current students, @EmilyRTeacher, about the impact of our program.

✅ Fully funded. ✅ Full time, yearlong principal residency. ✅ Excellent employment rate upon graduation. Apply today at nela.ced.ncsu.edu/application-in…

Are you interested in becoming a school leader? Our program boasts the following: ✅ 1 in only 5 universities in the US to be recognized by @UCEA as “Exemplary”. ✅ 22 of our graduates named Principal/AP of the year including @MBristow_Smith who was NC POY in 2019.

If I’m an aspiring principal, I would do everything I could to get into this program. If I’m a superintendent, I do everything I could to identify prospective school leaders to get into this program. The results of @NELA_NCSU grads are clear. twitter.com/nela_ncsu/stat…

@wch33 @NELA_NCSU Glad to be a part of @NELA_NCSU!!

You may want to read this twice! “You can not use yesterday’s skills for today’s school challenges and expect to be in business tomorrow.” - Richard E. Smith

@EducatingChamps Integrating technology effectively should enhance teaching and learning, but it cannot replace quality instruction provided by highly qualified teachers. We must reflect on how we used technology during the pandemic and ensure we use it to push learning forward next school year!

NELA - Tweet #3 - Reflect on Hess’ video “Education Technology” and Edison’s quote in “Tinkering Toward Utopia” below. What connection(s) can you make to virtual learning and the pandemic? “Faith in electronic pedagogy has returned again and again.”

@EducatingChamps The quote “control the controllables” comes to mind. In life and in education, we cannot control the things that come our way; however, what we can control is our response! Cage-busting leaders work to leverage resources in order to stack the odds for more favorable outcomes.

NELA - Tweet #2: As it pertains to leadership & change for school improvement reflect/post a response to the quote cited in Reframing Organizations by Boleman & Deal: “We can’t always control the music life plays for us but we can choose how we dance to it.” ~ Anonymous

The Most Powerful Tool in a Principal's Arsenal - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/e… Your school vision statement sets the tone for your school. It provides stakeholders a focus and should be specific! Ask yourself..."Does your vision "Spark Joy"?"#NELA2022

“We Have Complicated School Improvement” Mike Schmoker Why is this the case? I think we don’t include the right people at the table. Our teachers are asked to implement policy that they were not given a voice in creating. Let’s get the right people to the table! @EducatingChamps

What's Key to Sticky PD? - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/e… PD should be meaningful, engaging, timely, include teacher choice and be ongoing! Meaningful PD is never done! #NELA2022

The Mental Balancing Act for School Leaders - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/e… Principal Kafele reminds us to consider three things to help balance our mental health: Build relationships, Learn to say no, and make time for family and friends! #NELA2022

One of my favorite quotes by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” #IHaveADream #NELA2022

As future administrators, we can hold ourselves and fellow cohort members accountable for understanding special education and SPED law by researching best instructional practices in order to meet the needs of these diverse learners! #equityNELA2022 @EducatingChamps

Learning walks and micro teaching provide opportunities for teachers to grow from one another and build on each other’s strengths and weaknesses and help build school efficacy through these collaborative growth opportunities. #PLCNELA2022

How Trauma-Informed Are We, Really? - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/e… The world we see around us can be scary for adults, but do we think about how this trauma is affecting our students and our children? Trauma-informed education can be transformational! #NELA2022

The Only "F" that Matters - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/e… In this world of remote learning, are we focused more on grades or feedback? Which will continue to push learning forward? This article provides interesting approaches on grading and feedback. #NELA2022

In my work through NCSU’s Principal leadership program, our discussion of the importance in ensuring the curriculum in your school is reflective and relevant for the students within your school has been empowering! #NELA2022

@EducatingChamps Gender and Equity matter in Educational Leadership because as Lopez states it is “important to have teachers who represent the diversity of the students.” Students should see teachers that look like them and have those teachers as role models that they can identify with.

Reflective Post #2 - Thinking about the reading, video clip and class discussion, please respond to the following question: Why does Gender and Equity matter in Educational Leadership?

Instructional time is precious & should be treated as such. Did you know minor classroom disruptions such as phone calls & announcements can cause students to miss up to 20 days of instruction? Developing school norms can provide solutions to the problem. ascd.org/publications/e…