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Spotlight 4 Success
Hosted by American Book Company · EN
We're shining a light on education success stories and talking about current trends and topics of importance to the education community. Join us in conversation!
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Leading With Learning
May 500:06:31Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailA single conference hallway can tell you a lot about what educators are carrying and what they still hope to build. From the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, we sit down with Rochelle Brown, a CMS biology teacher with 26 years in education and a North Carolina Principal Fellow preparing for a full-year internship at Croft Community Schools in Charlotte. She talks candidly about the mix of excitement and nerves that comes with stepping toward school leadership and why being part of a cohort and a strong university program matters when you’re trying to grow.Website: spotlight4success.com
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What Happens When Tutoring Becomes A Relationship
May 500:04:48Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWe’re recording from the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, and we keep hearing the same challenge from school and district leaders: students need more support, but schedules and staffing are already stretched thin. So we sat down with Rene and Connie from Book Nook to get specific about what scalable high impact tutoring can look like when it’s built for real schools, real constraints, and real outcomes. Website: spotlight4success.com
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Who Do You Become When You Lead?
May 400:03:41Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWe’re recording from the NCASA Conference in Wellington, North Carolina, and we sit down with Ashley, a fifth grade teacher from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools who’s stepping into a new season of education leadership. After 14 years in the classroom, she’s now a principal fellow through North Carolina Central, preparing for an administrator internship next year. That transition brings a big question: how do you move from being responsible for one room of learners to leading adults, systems, and school-wide success?Website: spotlight4success.com
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How Schools Get Real Support
May 400:03:35Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWe’re recording from the NCASA conference in North Carolina, and we sit down with Taylor Simmons, Director of Creative Design at Achievable Dream Urban Learning Leadership Center (AADULLC). If you’ve ever wondered what real school improvement looks like when it’s tailored to a district’s actual needs, this conversation gets specific fast. Taylor breaks down how AADULLC operates as an education consulting partner, building customizable K-12 learning solutions that go beyond one-size-fits-all programs.Website: spotlight4success.com
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Future-Ready School Leadership
Apr 2900:06:32Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailLeadership doesn’t start the day you get the title. It starts in the rooms where you admit what you still need to learn, then go get it. From the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, I sit down with Tyneka and Toni, two Wake County Public Schools educators preparing for the next step as principal fellows connected to North Carolina Central University through CCP3 and their MSA pathway.Website: spotlight4success.com
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How To Turn Pressure Into A Diamond
Apr 2900:12:08Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailA surprise meetup at NCASA turns into a deep dive on what values based leadership looks like when you actually practice it every day. We sit down with Gina Watts, VP of U.S. Student Transformation at Growing Leaders, and Molly from the student transformation team, to talk about the Maxwell Leadership principles behind their work and why those principles still matter in real schools with real constraints.Website: spotlight4success.com
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Paid Principal Residency, Real Leadership
Apr 2800:03:20Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailA paid principal residency sounds almost too good to be true, but North Carolina is doing it and doing it with real rigor. From the floor of the NCASA Conference in Wellington, we sit down with Lauren, director of the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program, to unpack how the state is strengthening school leadership by investing in a clear pathway from educator to administrator.Website: spotlight4success.com
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Relationships That Raise Scores
Apr 2800:04:20Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailA conference hallway can be louder than a classroom, but it can also reveal what great school leadership sounds like. From the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, we sit down with Saida, principal of East Lawn Elementary, to talk about what actually holds a school together when the job gets hard and the needs keep coming.Website: spotlight4success.com
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When Recognition Becomes Instant
Apr 2700:05:13Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailA student prevents a fight before it starts, and a principal turns it into a moment the whole class will remember. That’s the kind of fast, specific recognition that can shift school culture, and it’s the heart of our conversation from the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina with Dean Cook, Sales Manager at Presentation Solutions. Website: spotlight4success.com
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Leading Through Educational Technology
Apr 2200:04:28Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailEducational leadership can feel like a mystery from the outside, so we wanted to make it concrete. We talk with Jessica, a vice president in a statewide education technology organization, about what her role looks like day to day, what she’s learning on the board, and how she’ll step into the president role next. Along the way, we get into why consistent communication like newsletters matters for keeping schools informed about edtech trends and what’s changing across a state.Website: spotlight4success.com
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