Show Notes
ACS Athens continuously invests time and resources to foster this development of its community of educators. Our guest today is Dr. Julie Crain, who under her present capacity as the Professional Development Coordinator is part of a team that develops the means for meaningful and effective professional development of staff, faculty, and administrators. She’s also a member of a team of internal coordinators for Accreditation and has held several positions over the years, including Principal of Middle School and, previously Principal of the Academy.
With Dr. Crain, today we discuss:
- A strong background in communication as a tool to connect in academia
- How a song and dance skit can warm up the whole community to you as the new principal
- The multiple challenges of shifting age-groups in the middle of the pandemic
- Are adolescents everywhere pretty much the same?
- From covering the Beat in a media outlet to controlling the Beat in a school
- Media Literacy, Social Media and the youth in times of excessive yellow
- The fine line between guidance and restriction, when it comes to protecting children online
- Evaluation through empowering as a growth process, when it comes to the professional development of employees
