Jamie Lessard

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@SteeleThoughts Yes! Students can feel when it’s real. Passion for content, learning, and for them as individuals is what makes teaching powerful and memorable. 🔑💡❤️

I think teachers are at their best when they are transparent with their passion. Love of content, love of learning, and love of kids… is what the students find so compelling.

(NEW) This week, I sit down with @SteeleThoughts, author of the new book "The Instructional Leader in You", to talk school culture, finding your spark, & sustaining longevity in leadership. 🎧 Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asp… #AspireToLead #SchoolLeadership #AspireLead

Absolutely! 🙌 Teaching doesn’t guarantee learning—feedback is the bridge that closes that gap. When feedback becomes a tool for transformation—not just evaluation—learning sticks. #EdLeadership #ElevateReflection

One leader holding the vision is like one trumpet blasting in a marching band—loud, but not exactly music. Share it with the whole team, and suddenly you’ve got a symphony in motion.

A vision is only effective if it is shared. So it’s not about the leader; it’s about the team.  It’s about the values that are held in common.  It’s about the relationships that are built.  And it’s about the shared aspirations among everyone in the organization.

Absolutely. 🎯 Strengths-first teaching changes everything—when we model curiosity, listen deeply, and design tasks with choice + challenge, kids see what they’re capable of. Let’s be the mirrors and the map. #AssetBased #StrengthsBased #edutwitter #MTSS #UDL

✨100% of students found her class interesting. 84% looked forward to it. That’s the power of representation, incentives, & just-right challenges. Love these simple secrets of student engagement! 👉 teachingmatters.org/insight/the-si… #EdChat #StudentEngagement

@PrincipalProj @MatthewXJoseph I think the next one for me is involving students in the conversation (#7). If we want true equity, we need to hear directly from the kids living the experience—it gives us insight we can’t get anywhere else.

Which of these practices is next on your to-do list? (Via leader @MatthewXJoseph)

@RyanMcGTech Love this! For me, it would be “Eye of the Tiger” 🎶—because persistence, resilience, and energy are what fuel both learning and teaching. 💪🔥 #FridayFun #EdTech

Friday challenge: If your classroom or favorite edtech tool had a theme song, what would it be? 🎵 For my classroom, "Don’t Stop Believin’’ by Journey, because learning should be all about curiosity, grit, and a little bit of magic/wonder. Drop yours below! #FridayFun #EdTech

Powerful and true. A healthy culture is built when success is shared, collaboration is welcomed, and people genuinely look out for one another. It’s less about competition and more about community. #Culturize

Well said. Leadership is not about position but about influence—and we all have it. The real test is whether our influence builds others up or tears them down. Thank you for the reminder that growth in leadership is a continual journey, not a final destination.

@SteeleThoughts Absolutely. Modeling the process of overcoming mistakes shows students that learning is iterative. Resilience and reflection are far more powerful lessons than perfection

Sometimes, it’s important for kids to see their teacher make mistakes… to see them modeling the process of overcoming failure.

Had a wonderful first day at the @upstatetech conference! I had great participation in my sessions and enjoyed networking and meeting new people! #2025utc

Super Excited to be presenting at the UTC Conference! Join me at 9:45 and 11:00 for Sunshine and Smarter Note Taking with NotebookLM @upstatetech #2025utc

Google for Edu definitely made a splash at ISTE. But I have concerns about moves it's making with Gemini. You can learn all about the news they released at ISTE here (link below). Of course, with big tech companies and edtech startups, you have to cut through the hype to get to hard truths. Here’s one that I haven’t seen discussed enough … Google is putting Gemini, its large language model assistant, in the hands of students of all ages. That will extend to NotebookLM in coming months. It feels a bit like letting kids out to recess on the playground without supervision. An excerpt from their release: The Gemini app is now available to students of all ages and as a core Workspace service, and in the coming months we’re making NotebookLM available to students of all ages while using their Google Workspace for Education accounts to help them study and better understand their class materials. AI startups like SchoolAI, MagicSchool, Brisk Teaching, and others offer something that Google does not. (I’ve looked and looked and can’t seem to find it.) Monitoring. A place where teachers can monitor the conversations that students are having with AI chatbots in real time. >> They include granular line-by-line transcripts of student conversations with AI. >> They summarize student conversations into insights that teachers can see at a glance in their teacher dashboards. >> They flag student interactions that might be inappropriate or harmful so the teacher can follow up immediately. Google doesn’t appear to have this at the teacher level. It’s available at the admin level — and Google boasts about how it helps districts come into legal compliance with their admin access. But let’s be honest. The admin isn’t going to spend their days monitoring student interactions with AI line by line. Even if Google flags dangerous student interactions with AI, there are several layers of communication (and even some physical distance) that need to be crossed before it gets back to the student. When the teacher doesn’t have direct access to the students’ AI interactions, they miss out on insights AI can provide them about the student interactions — what students struggle with, what interests students are showing, etc. That’s valuable data for teachers to have — especially if it’s instantaneous. You know that Google has seen their competitors’ products. This is an intentional decision not to include that feature. If you're going to turn on Gemini for students, there are tons of ethical and AI literacy implications. Tread cautiously.

☀️ So excited to be presenting at #2025UTC next week! Join me for "Sunshine and Smarter Note-Taking" as we dive into how NotebookLM can make your note-taking feel like a breeze. 🏖️📝 🗓️ July 15 | ⏰ 9:45am & 11:00am Let’s make summer learning smart & fun! #EdTech #NotebookLM

Share one way you hope to build positive school culture this year! (Via leader @DrBradJohnson)