Dwight Carter has been an educational leader in a variety of capacities over the past 25 + years and has a passion for building great culture. During this podcast, he shares why re-setting expectations coming out of the pandemic is so vital, how to practice those expectations, and then the power of trusting your staff and students to live them out. Dwight believes in the power of a smile and hello, and wraps up the podcast sharing about his book BE GREAT.
A little about Dwight:
Dwight Carter is an award-winning education leader from Central OH. He has served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal and is currently the Director of Student Support Systems for the Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical School District.
He is the co-author of What’s In Your Space? Five Steps to Better School and Classroom Design (Corwin, 2016), Leading Schools in Disruptive Times: How to Survive Hyper-change (Corwin 2017/2021); and a contributing author to Because of a Teacher: Stories of the Past to Inspire the Future of Education written and curated by George Couros. His first solo book, Be GREAT: Five Principles to Improve School Culture from the Inside Out, was published recently (IMPress, 2022).
You can connect with him on Twitter at @Dwight_Carter, or on his blog at Mr. Carter’s Office (https://dwightcarter.edublogs.org/).