The Principal Matters!

Being part of a team means playing your role, and ultimately, recognizing that every role is important.

In this episode, Mark Wilson talks with Stacy Stephens of Crisp County Elementary School about building a team and the importance of helping your team see the collective vision. Stacy is a former basketball coach and uses his expertise in coaching to help us find the best ways for our own team(s) to be successful, because our ability to be able to bring people together and build a team is vital to being an effective leader and principal. Listen to the full episode for even more insight from Stacy and Mark!

As surely as our roles as leaders expand, our relationships take on an expanded role. There’s no shortcut for building relationships, and that’s why we’re so happy to have this dynamic trio here to walk us through this ever-important topic for school leaders. In this episode, Mark Wilson chats with Kerensa Wing and Octavius Mulligan about developing relationships as they cover the foundations of relationships, building relationships with a large faculty, and the importance of modeling quality relationships. 

Our guests:

Kerensa Wing is a former principal, our very own 2020 National Principal of the Year, and she is currently a coach for principals with Gwinnett County Schools. Octavius Mulligan is the former principal of Testnatee Gap Elementary School in Cleveland, Georgia, and now he's dean of the College of Ed at Piedmont University in North Georgia.

In this episode, Mark Wilson chats with Octavius Mulligan and Kerensa Wing about being visible. It isn’t just enough physically being there in our schools, we have to be engaged and connected with what’s going on. There’s a lot of work to be done outside of our offices. These three leaders bring years of experience to an important conversation, providing detailed insight on visibility in our schools and our communities.

Our guests:

Octavius Mulligan is the former principal of Testanee Gap Elementary School in Cleveland, Georgia, and now he's dean of the College of Ed at Piedmont University in north Georgia. Kerensa Wing is a former principal, our very own 2020 National Principal of the Year, and she is currently a coach for principals with Gwinnett County Schools.

What is our job? What are we supposed to do in our schools everyday? One of the biggest challenges for us as school leaders is teaching ourselves how to do the job and figuring out what the job is. Dr. Mark Wilson and Amy Thornton help us navigate this topic in depth in this episode.