Gracious Space with Rashard Curmon Transformative Principal 435

<p>Rashard Curmon is a graduate of Elizabeth City State University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in Speech Pathology, a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from East Carolina University, and a Master in School Administration NC State University. Rashard is a former Language Arts teacher. Rashard has served as an Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach and has worked at all three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. He currently resides in Winterville, North Carolina, and is a Principal for Lenoir County Public Schools.</p> <ul> <li>Elementary school principal - School opened in 2009</li> <li>6th in 12 years</li> <li>Learn as much as you can.</li> <li>Don’t come in with a savior complex.</li> <li>What are the early wins for you?</li> <li>Clear vision and mission</li> <li>Didn’t take the route where you watch for six months to a year.</li> <li>Culture of collaboration</li> <li>Gracious space</li> <li>My total focus was achievement.</li> <li>Urgency is now!</li> <li>Instructional framework</li> <li>I had to bei n classrooms. I can’t move our school instructionally if I don’t know what’s going on.</li> <li>When I focus on culture, instruction goes down, when I focus on instrcution, culture goes down.</li> <li>Engulfed our staff in the why.</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/donyellD">Dr. Donyell Dickey</a></li> <li>Once you have results it doesn’t matter.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Be someone who gives themselves totally to this work. Study, read, understand the research. Use Twitter to follow some other people. Do what you ask your teachers to do.</li> </ul> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <h3 id="incontrolselformiddleschool">InControl SEL for Middle School</h3> <p>In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that’s ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it’s so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that’s purposeful, they meet students right where they’re at.</p> <p>The videos are 5–