Leadership confrences

Friday's learning communities mid-year instate was not an easy thing to fit into my busy schedule, but the sessions I attended were worth the stress.  The first session I attended was Mentors Who Teach: Balancing a high wire act by Kurt Earnest.  This is not the first time I've seen Kurt talk; he is an amazing speaker and I have enjoyed both times I have heard him.  Kurt talked about how difficult it can be to balance the various facets of teaching in the classroom. 


The second session I attended was the intergrating leadership into your learning communities by Clinton Stephens.  This session was not as helpful in my opinion and was more difficult to find applicable ways to involve it in our program.


I thought I.S.L.E. was a lot more fun.  The keynote speaker Delatorro McNeal was so interesting.  He had a ton of awesome leadership quotes that I wrote down.  I also loved that he used pitch perfect and the grid iron gang as examples of leadership in our movies.  One of the things he said that he said was that the toughest person to lead is always yourself.  I stayed to watch Delatorro in the first session as well.  He gave 7 tips to write your own ticket in college and beyond.


The only thing I was disappointed with was the flash session You do it wrong.  I just did not get anything good out of it.