4 Common Mistakes Instructional Leaders Make with Amber Dembowski Transformative Principal 337

Amber Dembowski (Twitter) is a principal of two elementary buildings and founder of emBOSSed Leadership.

Mindful leadership embedded within instructional leadership.

Amber’s podcast

• Worked in many different facets of education - from para professional to teacher to instructional coach to university to principal.
• Bringing staff together for professional learning opportunities
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1. Focusing too much on student outcomes 2. Staying out of teachers’ way

• 4 types of teachers: notables (top 20%), classics (40% of teachers, need development), interim amateurs (20% of teachers, not living up to potential right now because of…), sideliners (
  

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