Comments on: Increasing Respect for Educators

By: editor

editor — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:59:55 +0000

@Nathan Marsh Our Law of the Hog video is now available on YouTube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY9XTNpeAa8.

By: Nathan Marsh

Nathan Marsh — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:17:19 +0000

The Link to your law of the hog video is not functioning. It loads the link, but the video never plays. Is there a reason for this and is there a new location to access this video? We use your books as trainings model for our managers and the video clip is a nice accompaniment to the introduction and training we do.

By: David Maxfield

David Maxfield — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:35:47 +0000

Hi Grizzly Bear Mom, Thanks for your insight and suggestion. We are currently working with several school districts as well as with the KIPP Charter Schools. You can check them out at http://www.kipp.org
They do a wonderful job!
David

By: editor

editor — Wed, 30 May 2012 22:19:06 +0000

@grizzly bear mom If you’d like to see how Crucial Conversations training helped one school district, read our case study about the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) here: http://www.vitalsmarts.com/casestudies/saisd/.

By: grizzly bear mom

grizzly bear mom — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:33:52 +0000

When I was superintending Sunday school a parent called the senior pastor to complain that their child’s diaper hadn’t been changed at Sunday School. They didn’t talk to the teacher, lead teacher, superintendent, director of Christian Education, or Education Minister. They escalated to the pastor of a 2,000 member church. Resolution of this was delegated to me. I regularly visited the classroom and often saw the teachers changing diapers, but having no children I don’t know what happens if a child’s diaper isn’t changed for 60 minutes or if you can even tell. I called “Miss Susie”, explained the situation and asked if she were willing to meet with the parents 30 minutes next week before Sunday School started. She agreed. They parents agreed to the same. The following Sunday Miss Susie and I waited for the parents never showed up. People don’t make the same accusations to someone’s face that they do behind their backs. I treat my employees and associates the same way. They are “innocent until proven guilty”. If there is a performance gap we collaborate to implement a solution. I believe that many of our education system’s problems would disappear if its administrators medicated disputes and advocated for the teachers instead of the parents. SUGGESTION: Would Crucial Conversations consider offering some free training to a really horrible school system, and then conduct a return on investment analysis of its impact on a school system? I’m sure some training manager somewhere would see the results and want to implement the same.