Getting Unstuck #180: Breaking Down Leadership Silos
“I wanted to provide an opportunity for school leaders to be more effective leaders. That starts with the sharing of ideas. Anything, when it comes to change, begins with the sharing of ideas, seeing perspectives differently beyond your remote area of learning.”
Our guest
Yasmeen Robbins has spent 16 years in public education. Robbins spent eight years as a classroom teacher and four years as an Instructional Coach, and 2 ½ years as an assistant principal in North Carolina. She currently serves as an Instructional Review Consultant for the North Carolina Department of Instruction. Yasmeen is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Rebrand NC Education, a digital platform that provides current trends by highlighting and telling the story from the perspective of change agents. For the past two years she has been working on an app to help create a collaborative structure for school leaders.
“As a school leader, you can create a place for educators and students to thrive, or you can create a place for them to just survive. And we need leaders to create environments for educators to thrive. Because the truth is, we understand what a powerful impact leadership has on student achievement. We understand that a quality education can change the trajectory of a child's life.”
Why this conversation matters
This interview is part of our “Unstuck” series. These interviews focus on school leaders who are not just getting unstuck, they’re already "unstuck." And by "Unstuck," we mean they are leading or embracing a major shift in student learning, instruction, ongoing teacher professional development, community relations, or personal leadership. They’re doing things better, not just differently, not just as part of the most recent fad or trend, but because they want to increase the likelihood that they can achieve desired outcomes on behalf of those they support.
These change leaders have also embraced one or more of the nine recommended change shifts we detail in our book, Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change. Those shifts were heavily informed by our research with thought leaders and practitioners. Now, in this series, we tell the stories of educators who are demonstrating one or more of those shifts, highlighting where their school or district was before the change, and where they’ve led or are leading their school or district. In short, we want to take our narrative from principles to practices that can inform the work of other educators.
“Let's create an app that will allow principals to be able to communicate, and collaborate and provide resources for each other.”
Listen for
√ How Yasmeen is helping to broaden the definition of student achievement.
√ Why observational data – qualitative data – is so important.
√ The origins of Yasmeen’s idea for a cross-county communications collaboration app.
√. How the Principal Pipeline app will facilitate the sharing of resources and collaboration across schools.
√. What drives Yasmeen? What makes her tick as a leader?
√. The characteristics Yasmeen sees in the “influential leader.”
Referenced
George Couros’ The Innovator’s Mindset
Connect with Yasmeen
Twitter: @Robbinseducates
Likedin: www.linkedin.com/in/yasmeen-robbins-b7777a79
Website: https://www.rebrandnced.com
Email: yasmeenrobbins@gmail.com, yasmeenrobbins@rebrandnced.com
Innovator's Mindset podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFY7wbRJ9s
Ednc article: https://www.ednc.org/watch-two-nc-administrators-create-platform-for-school-leaders/
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