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The Empowered Principal™ is designed to offer tools and strategies that no other elementary principal resource provides - exercises that strengthen your emotional fitness as an educational leader. Former teacher, principal, district administrator, and Certified Life Coach Angela Kelly Robeck discusses why elementary principals feel complete overwhelm, ways to approach the issue of time, how to build authentic relationships with staff, parents, students, and district officials, and how to enjoy your job and life overall. Together, we tackle the toughest aspects of being a principal by learning how to manage your thinking so that you can handle whatever comes your way. Listeners can download a free workbook from my website at www.angelakellycoaching.com

The Empowered Principal™ Podcast Angela Kelly Robeck - Education Podcast Network

    • Education
    • 4.7 • 56 Ratings

The Empowered Principal™ is designed to offer tools and strategies that no other elementary principal resource provides - exercises that strengthen your emotional fitness as an educational leader. Former teacher, principal, district administrator, and Certified Life Coach Angela Kelly Robeck discusses why elementary principals feel complete overwhelm, ways to approach the issue of time, how to build authentic relationships with staff, parents, students, and district officials, and how to enjoy your job and life overall. Together, we tackle the toughest aspects of being a principal by learning how to manage your thinking so that you can handle whatever comes your way. Listeners can download a free workbook from my website at www.angelakellycoaching.com

    Making Decisions

    Making Decisions

    The majority of what you do as a school leader is make decisions. Many principals don’t fully trust in their decisions or sit in indecision due to fear. I want to offer a few thoughts about making decisions that will transform your leadership.
     
    Hear how to make decisions through the filter of your future goals and values rather than fear. I’m showing you why you become a stronger, more empowered leader when you become practiced at making decisions, what happens when you don’t trust your decisions, and how to cultivate courage in your decision-making.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/274

    • 26 min
    Hiring in 2023

    Hiring in 2023

    It’s March 2023 and I’ve been working with clients and talking to people all over the country who are experiencing one thing in common: stress, fear, doubt, and panic about hiring for the upcoming school year.
     
    Discover how to attract your ideal teachers and staff as you hire in 2023. You’ll hear why it’s worth questioning what “highly qualified” means to you, how to start thinking differently about the pool of teachers available to you, and what you can do to lead in an empowered way despite your circumstances.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/273

    • 24 min
    Not Your People

    Not Your People

    Our brains love to focus on the teachers who refuse to follow your lead, the parent who comes in raging at you, or the district admin who consistently fails to support you. But the great news is these are not your people.
     
    Discover why we often focus on the people who aren’t our people, and how to begin training our brains out of this habit. You’ll hear how there is an abundance of people who are your people, and why being authentically yourself is the key to finding them.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/272

    • 19 min
    Coaching for Experienced Principals with Rebecca

    Coaching for Experienced Principals with Rebecca

    This week, I’m joined by one of my very special clients, Rebecca. She has been a school leader in a rural district in Ohio for just over a decade now. But it’s only in the past year that Rebecca has taken ownership and control over her time and her calendar.
     
    She’s discussing the specific work we’ve done together, how she’s implemented it in her work, and how she’s changed her dynamic with her entire team so she can have a light and empowered experience as a school leader instead of feeling weighed down and burdened by her day-to-day.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/271

    • 43 min
    When a Teacher Wants to Quit

    When a Teacher Wants to Quit

    Principals across the board are dealing with teachers who want to quit. They’re seeing new teachers who had a different idea of what the profession would look like, as well as veterans who just decide they can’t do it anymore.
     
    You’ll hear why your personal opinion is irrelevant in a situation like this, the difference between clean coaching and mentoring, and how to give them space to clarify their thoughts and come to their own decision about their career.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/270

    • 16 min
    Working with Negative Teachers

    Working with Negative Teachers

    You might have one, two, or even a handful of teachers on your campus who tend to be exceptionally negative. Do you know how to approach them in these instances?
     
    Learn how to approach your teachers from a more neutral, loving, and compassionate place when they’re being negative. I’m sharing what to do when you experience a negative teacher, what you have to be careful of in these moments, and why the goal isn’t to change your teacher’s negative attitude or thinking.
     
    Get full show notes and more information here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/269

    • 19 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
56 Ratings

56 Ratings

TucsMom123 ,

Excellent

Great content that I appreciate and regularly apply in the middle of my days as a school leader. Love that Ángela frequently goes back to thinking about our live holistically and to thinking about our thinking.

hmmlgus ,

Highly Recommend

I just completed my 3rd year as Principal as a PreK-8 magnet school and this podcast has helped me so much through all the ups and downs of this crazy job! I highly recommend this podcast!

Sweet Lorraine64 ,

Forever motivating

The Empowered Principal Podcast is a must listen. During the onset of the pandemic I began listening to many podcasts in search of anything to get me through leading a school through a global pandemic. While I enjoyed a variety of topics, I’m so grateful to have landed here. Angela’s real school examples, her enthusiasm and energy are forever motivating for me. After a few episodes I was hooked and signed on as a client for 1:1 coaching. Best decision I have made while navigating school leadership while dealing with some pretty stressful life stuff. Will be using the STEAR cycle as I move into a new life chapter!

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