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Knowing And Operating Within Your Character Strengths - Dwight Carter
Knowing And Operating Within Your Character Strengths - Dwight Carter
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Apr 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Today our guest is Dwight Carter the Director of Student Support Systems at Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools. We talk to Dwight about the importance of knowing and operating within your character strengths. He shares about the need to understanding the strengths that we bring to the table and talks about a free tool that we can use to help us to aware of our own strengths. Dwight also shares how knowing the strengths of the people on our teams can help us get un-stuck, and how understanding the diversity in the room can help make us aware of the biases that we have so that we can take action and move forward. To learn more about the work of Jack Slavinski visit: https://jackslavinski.com/ To take the free VIA Survey of Character Strengths click here: https://www.viacharacter.org/ Dwight Carter is an award-winning education leader from Central OH. He has served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal and is currently the Director of Student Support Systems for the Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical School District. He is the co-author of What’s In Your Space? Five Steps to Better School and Classroom Design (Corwin, 2016), Leading Schools in Disruptive Times: How to Survive Hyper-change (Corwin 2017/2021); and a contributing author to Because of a Teacher: Stories of the Past to Inspire the Future of Education written and curated by George Couros. His first solo book, Be GREAT: Five Principles to Improve School Culture from the Inside Out, was published recently (IMPress, 2022).
Released:
Apr 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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