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Are you ready to step into the future of education
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Because in 2024, the landscape is changing and evolving, which presents opportunities, but also challenges
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In today's episode, we're gonna explore how to help you nail your next interview
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while thinking about the future and where we're headed. So, grab a pen, a piece of paper
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and get ready to take some notes, because we're gonna start right now
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Hey everybody, Gordon Amerson here, Superintendent of Schools and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
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And on this channel, we help leverage my experience from classroom teacher to school district superintendent
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to help you go further, faster in your educational journey. If this is your first time with us
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don't forget to hit that subscribe button, as well as the bell notification so you don't miss any cool updates
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or any of our newest episodes. It is without question that the landscape in education
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has been changing and evolving. Ever since coming out of the pandemic
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there have been lots of challenges, lots of issues, and lots of things that have inhibited our ability
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to really produce the outcomes and the experiences that we want for kids
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But what I'm confident in is I'm confident in the professionals, the educators, the leaders
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the communities that we serve to be resilient, to stay innovative, to stay focused on students
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scholars, and their success. And the more that we focus on thinking
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about how 2024 and beyond is gonna be an opportunity for us to grow together, learn together
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experience new things, new opportunities, the horizons are bright, the opportunities are immense
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And so we wanna help to explore in the context of helping you as an educator
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helping you as somebody who wants to give back, serve, support children, support communities
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build communities and cities into better, more democratic, more inclusive, more equity-based places
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We wanna help you in how to thrive in your interview, thinking about these new and interesting
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and unique challenges in 2024. So in today's episode, we're gonna explore three strategies
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that we want you to think through and anticipate questions in your next interview
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around these types of topics, because they are contemporary. They're about 2024 and beyond
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We're thinking about how do we stay innovative and cutting edge and how do we meet the unique needs
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of our schools and school communities and our scholars in the 2024 and beyond context
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So let's dive right in with strategy number one. All right, strategy number one
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is we wanna start to showcase and highlight our adaptability to hybrid learning environments
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leveraging the innovative technologies that allow us to bring the teaching and learning experience
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beyond just the four walls of the classroom, but into the virtual space
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into the technology-driven world. How do we start to embrace and interact and engage
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with artificial intelligence and with the innovative technologies that are on the front and cutting edge
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And our students, our scholars, they're starting to interact with this outside of the context of education
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outside of the classroom. And I would wanna ask you and invite you
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into the conversation around how do we bring AI into the space of inside of our classrooms
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How do we start to teach, leverage, and enhance the ability of our educators and our leaders
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and also our scholars to embrace these breakthrough technologies that are really gonna drive
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they're gonna drive our economy, they're gonna drive our society, they're really gonna push us into a different place
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And I recognize that sometimes that's a challenge for us because it's a world that we don't know
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It's a world that has not fully materialized. It's not fully been understood or adopted
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much less adapted to. But I would caution you to push back
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and not wanna think through this lens because as an education leader, as a district leader
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I'm looking for folks who are thinking this way. I'm looking for people who are embracing
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these types of technologies, these types of opportunities to expand the opportunities
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for learning, growth, development, and curiosity. The reality is that if we go back
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to a place of the beginnings of the internet when we didn't know what it was
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when we were worried about what it would be, when we were worried about how it would impact
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or change our realities as teachers and as leaders, who knew that these years later it would become ubiquitous
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utilitarian where everybody is using it and it just became a part of the way that we do things
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I would venture that these hybrid learning environments, these innovative cutting-edge technology solutions
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that are embedded around AI and blockchain and all these new and disruptive technologies
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is where we are going in 2024 and beyond. And my question to you is how will you position yourself
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in the interview to think about that, to incorporate that? What recon, what research are you doing
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to explore these pieces? And if you're already embedded and this is already work that you're doing
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I do think you could potentially be a cut above the rest because you're gonna be coming in with a set of assets
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and a set of resources and skills that other folks are gonna be learning, growing
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and quite frankly becoming comfortable with. So leverage this. If you're ready to go, dig into it even more
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And if you're not quite ready, start exposing yourself to it. Start thinking through it, start reading, start exploring
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start giving yourself a base of knowledge and understanding to start to be able to think about how this might be
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a technology, a resource, a strategy, a way of being a professional educator for you
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as you move forward. Because I think this is gonna enhance your ability to stand out as a candidate as you're interviewing
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and moving into the education in the educational professional space. So again, think about how you leverage technology
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and how you adapt to this new kind of virtual learning opportunities
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that need to be deeply embedded in our educational practices now. Come into the interview thinking about ways
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that you might leverage and showcase your ability to adapt these types of technologies
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It's gonna give you a leg up. That's strategy number one. All right, so before we move into strategy number two
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now it's your turn. Share with us in the comments below, what strategy are you using to incorporate virtual learning
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outside of the box technology and innovation that's coming in, whether it be AI or it be blockchain
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Like what strategies are you incorporating and are you using? Share that with us in the comments below
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And we're gonna move into strategy number two. Strategy number two is gonna be focused
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on how do you demonstrate your understanding of the social emotional needs of our scholars
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Every candidate should be able to sit in front of that interview panel
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and talk about the principles of social emotional learning, social emotional development of students
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How are we helping them holistically? The total experience of being a student
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the academic, the social development, the emotional development, right? These pieces are really, really important
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In the context of coming, again, out of a pandemic when students did not have the same levels
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of social interactions that we would be accustomed to, they didn't have the ability to thrive
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and be connected with their friends for a long period of time
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And that's had a profound impact. We see it manifesting itself on our campuses
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We see it manifesting throughout our communities. And so my question for you is as you think
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about your next teaching job, your first teaching job, how are you thinking through the importance
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of developing the social emotional needs of our students? There's a reasonable expectation that academically
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you have the tools, the resources, the knowledge and the expertise to help our students academically
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You're content experts. You have the pedagogical approaches. You have the instructional prowess
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to be able to teach our children. The question is, and what I'm going to challenge you with
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is when you come into the interview, can you demonstrate the empathy, the nurturing
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and the care necessary to meet our students' social and emotional needs
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Because it is not an either or anymore. It is a both and
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We need the academic prowess, but we also need people to care about their students
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All of them, everyone, the challenging ones, even more so the challenging ones
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exploring, expanding, unpacking, building the relationship necessary to have that student be vulnerable
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to have that student share the challenges, the trials and tribulations that they may be going through
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We as teachers, we as educators, we as professional educators are there to serve our children
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serve our kids, serve our community. And that is best done by knowing
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the whole kit and caboodle of our kids, their academic needs, their social needs
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their emotional needs. Teaching, being an educator, being in this profession, it's not for the faint of heart
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We invest our time, we invest our energy, the blood, sweat and the tears of building our classrooms
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building up our schools, building up our school communities. It is a job that needs to be a passion
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It is a job where children need to be, they need to be engaged
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and they need to light up when they see you because they know that you are gonna pour into them
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This is at the essence and the core of meeting student's social emotional learning needs
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is that they will become vulnerable and open to learn anything and everything
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when they know that you care about them, when they know that you are thinking about them
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as human beings, not just as vessels to receive the academic instruction
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but rather to go on this experience of growth, development and learning together
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which includes all those facets. So in the context of 2024, how are you going to showcase your desire
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and your commitment to knowing, understanding, valuing and honoring the social emotional needs
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of all of your students? That's something that every panel, including any panel that I would be a part of
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would be very, very highly interested in, hearing that from candidates and knowing how those candidates are gonna bring that in
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to our school community, into our district, into our school. Those are the types of things that we're looking for
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So build that in, do your homework, do your research, figure out what those practices are
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figure out how it fits with your style, figure out how it fits with your personality
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Not every single person is gonna approach meeting the social emotional developmental needs
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of every student the same way. This is very individualized. For folks who are introverts, but teachers
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they might approach it very different than folks who are extroverts and are teachers
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All of that can be individualized, but your commitment, your commitment to meeting the social emotional needs
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of students is the most important piece because then you can make it your own
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And then it becomes authentic and it becomes something that kids can grab onto
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and be a part of and know that they're in a nurturing, honorable environment where they can take risk academically
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and they can learn and grow alongside you. So showcase your ability to really highlight
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the needs for social emotional development in all of your students. That's strategy number two
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All right, strategy number three. As candidates, you're gonna wanna demonstrate your cultural competency and your equity awareness
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In an increasingly diverse community and society, it's gonna be important to be able to honor and value
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all of the diverse backgrounds, all the diverse people that are in and around our school communities
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As a professional educator, it is gonna be your responsibility to be able to showcase
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how you have thought about issues around diversity, equity, inclusion, inclusivity. These are things that are gonna be really, really important
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as we continue to grow and develop communities that have cultural awareness and cultural competency
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that know and understand and value the historic backgrounds, the historic contributions of different people
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of different races, of different ethnicities, of different cultures. Your ability to showcase and highlight
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that is really, really important in the context of 2024 and beyond
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We're gonna continue to be an increasingly diverse community and increasingly diverse society
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And the more we embrace these principles and embrace these values, the better off our students and their experiences will be
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So you wanna think through how you showcase and highlight your knowledge, your experience
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and your expertise in developing diverse communities, diverse students, diverse perspectives. How you're gonna showcase and highlight
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your commitment to equity and creating equity-based outcomes by meeting the individualized needs of all of your students
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and how to be inclusive. How to be inclusive of different perspectives
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different backgrounds, different mindsets, because that diversity, equity, and inclusion is what is going to build a rich, vibrant community
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where people can feel valued, where people can know that their heritage
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and their backgrounds are valued and recognized and honored. These are the types of things, again
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as school leaders that we are looking for in 2024 and beyond
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These are the realities of who we are. These are the realities of where we need to go
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in public education, at least in one humble leader's opinion and experience
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So as you think through these things, these are the mindsets, these are the strategies that are gonna help you
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stand out because you're gonna be thinking about these contemporary and very, very relevant issues and topics
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So if you like this video, check out this video because this is gonna help you
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also in your 2024 experience of interviewing and being prepared to be a professional educator
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