“You can start to build up their confidence in PBL even if they’re not doing it full-fledged yet, you can start to plant the seed. Start to build their confidence and then start to build their competence.”
Welcome to the PBL Simplified, brought to you by Magnify Learning, where we help teachers, school leaders, and afterschool workers find their sweet spot through PBL!
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SHOW NOTES
In this leadership episode, we are talking about building confidence in your staff. How great do you think your building would be running once you've launched your vision and become a confident leader with a confident staff? You can build confidence by starting with the wins and pointing out the positive aspects of portions of PBL projects.
We also have an opening need to know about how to get your staff PBL Certified. Having PBL Certified teachers in your school will revolutionize education. It will also trickle down to your new hires, because they will be training experts. Once you have PBL experts in your school it will spread to the rest of the teachers and staff.
Episode Highlights:
[01:38] How do I get my staff PBL certified?
[02:57] Through our PBL Certification at Magnify Learning, we get to change our relationship with you. When people become certified, we become partners at creating awesomeness.
[05:01] Think of PBL Jumpstart as making it to the middle of a mountain. PBL advanced will take you a little further. To get to the top, you would become PBL certified.
[08:21] When we talked about you being a confident leader, we talked about focusing on your wins. Where did you have effort, success, and progress?
[09:49] If you're just starting PBL in your school, point out a place where there was success like with a community partner to build confidence.
[11:08] Mine the positives when there is pushback. Point out the positive and the success. A confident mindset focuses on the positive.
[13:09] Build confidence in your staff, so they will go into the training already thinking it's going to be great.
[13:51] What's your why as an educator and as a school? Remind them of their why.
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