The Power of Us Part 1: The Us, In the Power of Us
NTN Leadership Conference - February 20, 2019 I will never forget meeting Jennifer and Eric. It was Feb 20, 2019 and Rachel and I entered the NTN Leadership Conference. We were divided into rooms based on how long we had been New Tech schools. So here we were, both 8 years in and both of our schools had teachers attending this conference as the Leaders of their schools. The other part that drew us to one another is that we were located 3.5 hours from one another. While not just around the corner, we knew it was possible to connect. Rachel and I spent our time at the Leadership conference reviewing how we wanted to organize the Professional Development for our school over the next year. Jennifer and Eric were organizing their goal of embarking on the practice of Team Instructional Rounds. We overheard their conversation and remarked “Instructional rounds were a practice we once did with our first coach with NTN and we really miss it. What a great goal.” We laughingly said, “It would be ...