Reviving Community, Rebuilding and Establishing Trust in Education
Clarity of purpose fine-tunes your team’s alignment. As an educational leader, your focus on this comes face-to-face with unique challenges. In this episode of The Ruth and Scott Podcast, Ruth Jefferson and Dr. Scott Gostchock bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the table as they explore these challenges and ideas for how you, as an educational leader, can face these things head-on.
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Key Topics Talked About In This Episode Include:
- The USS Abraham Lincoln
- Culturally-responsive work, ministry, and purpose in schools
- Building feedback loops in educational environments that facilitate community
- Violations of trust in the educational environment and relationship repair
- When breaches of trust become breaches of identity
- Getting the pulse of your community
- The change in access to tools students of color would typically use to help with navigation of resources to help with the educational journey
- The importance of mentorship in helping students achieve educational outcomes
- How NIL deals can provide insight into the provision of further opportunities for students
- Relationship transitions for parents with college-age children
- Erikson’s Stages of Development and learning to navigate relationships and relationship changes.
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FAQ
What are the 5 essentials of a team?
Thinking about trust from a deficit mindset can lead to challenges down the line and barriers to clarity in the function of your team. The 5 essentials of a team focuses on a growth mindset that breaks out of that mold through:
- Vulnerability-based trust
- True and positive conflict
- Clarity of purpose leading to commitment
- Accountability as the highest form of praise
- Results
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How can you, as someone working in an educational setting, build in feedback loops to help your team achieve success?
Establishing feedback loops is vital to your success because it means that you connect with your students, families, and community, and also open the door to getting helpful feedback you might not have otherwise received from those who are closest to them. Here are some examples of how you can do this:
- Allow anonymity where possible.
- Highlight ways feedback is being put into action to achieve direct results.
- Use technology to make it easier to provide feedback.
- Allow people to vote with their feet by holding quarterly meetings.
- Hold parent and family-teacher conferences.
- Make home visits when possible.
- Develop an understanding of students and families at a social and emotional level.
- Build parent-teacher groups with a clear mission and focus.
- Host community gatherings and forums.
- Invite community leaders into your school.
- Invite families in once monthly for community dinners and let them be a part of putting them together.
- Put together a Spring event like a play or musical and invite school families and community members to attend.
- Conduct 360 evaluations for everyone, including more than the administrative staff.
As a parent, what insights can Erikson's stage of trust vs. mistrust give you to help you better prepare for your child's transition to college?
Allow yourself to understand that your world is changing. Open yourself up to explore and get to know your child in this new environment, with new roles and responsibilities on both sides, for you and for them. Think through and identify new obstacles that can show up as this relationship changes. You won’t know them all up front, but going through this exercise can help prepare you to take on a more growth-oriented mindset for challenges you can’t see in this moment.
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