Invitation Only Parent Teacher Conferences with Jay Posick Transformative Principal 254 Social Media: If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it! Jay Posick is principal of Merton Intermediate school in Merton Wisconsin How our culture came to be here in Merton. Weekly nuts and bolts emails “Good Morning Merton Family“ Take care of kids… Connect with people face to face. There aren’t silver bullets. Get out of your office. If you’re sitting in your office, trouble is going to come find you so you might as well go find it! 3 all-staff meetings each year that I’m in charge of. First agenda item on grade level meetings is kids. There are times as educators where we focus more on the negative than on the positive Recognize kids that are going above and beyond. Be kind, be safe, do your job. Good news call of the day. #mertonproud Finding ways to recognize kids. Find a way for teachers to share more with others. Mark French came up with the idea. Have a positive phone call at the end of the week. Ordinary to you, amazing to everyone else. Invitation only conferences Pat on the back or a kick in the butt! Building Leadership Team. More on invitation only conferences. Great things, challenges, great things. How to be a transformative principal? Get out of your office! Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey