Episode 35: Designing for Belonging and Impact with Dr. Jill Siler

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Episode Summary:

Dr. Jill Siler, Deputy Executive Director for Professional Learning at the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), joins Katie Martin to discuss her journey from teaching to district leadership, highlighting the importance of intentional design and culture in education. Jill reflects on her career path, sharing how her experience in school leadership taught her to balance challenges with joy in the work, emphasizing a vision for education that goes beyond compliance and test scores.

Key topics covered include:

  • 🌱 Developing supportive, intentional leadership and community accountability practices
  • 🤝 Creating spaces that foster belonging and community in professional learning
  • 🎨 The impact of designing learning environments that reflect the values of the community
  • 👩‍👧‍👦 Shifting from standardized testing to broader measures of student and teacher success
  • 🦸 Building a sustainable educational system through intentional design and high expectations for all students

Related Resources:

  • Blog: 3 Key Elements for Cultivating a Learner-Centered Culture
    Three key elements must be addressed, no matter the context, for a learner-centered culture to thrive: mindsets and beliefs, relational trust, and collective efficacy.
  • Course: Learner-Centered Leadership for Meaningful Change
    This course will help you define yourself as a learner-centered leader, explore ways to build relationships with your team through relational trust and leverage a human-centered design process, beginning with empathy, to create a proposal for change.
  • Tool: Enabling Conditions & Culture Self-Study
    This comprehensive resource is designed to help educational systems assess and improve their foundational elements for success. This self-paced assessment covers six crucial areas: Coherence, Communication, Aligned Systems, Growth & Development, Partnerships, and Culture.

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