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What if you had time in your day to learn more about what your people need and how you can support them? 

The five stages from urgent to strategic leadership:

1. Awareness: Leaders become aware that urgency is driving their leadership decisions.
2. Perspective shift: Leaders begin viewing their work through the lens of priority mangement, not time mangement.
3. Intention: Leaders implment strategies to decrease the amount of time they spend doing tasks which are urgent, but not important (quadrant 3).
4. Impact: Leaders use high-leverage strategies to support incremental teacher growth in small chunks of time.
5. Strategic: Leaders begin to apply principles of strategic leadership to align school structures and processes to support teacher growth and development.

The Journey is a five-week guided adventure to get school leaders like you back on course to consistently supporting and growing their teachers.

• Increase organizational capacity to manage tasks
• Empower teachers to solve their own problems
• Help develop more reflective teachers
• Improve your instructional leadership

Join a small cohort of school leaders on a five-week journey from urgent to strategic. Each week we will:

• Learn about the challenges to being strategic and how to overcome them
• Implement tools and strategies to increase your ability to support and grow teachers
• Anchor your learning in a supportive group of peers

Still not sure? Listen to Gina, a recent participant in The Journey.

Hi! My name is Gina Stevenson and I am an Assistant Principal at the Lexington 4 Early Childhood Center, located in Swansea SC. This is my 17th year as an AP. Throughout my time as an Assistant Principal, I have engaged in a variety of professional development through a variety of formats. Dr. Buskey’s course was a great mixture of timely and relevant content, a delivery that suited my needs as a learner and a chance to network with other assistant principals throughout the state. I highly recommend Dr. Buskey’s 5 stages for improving your day-to-day leadership in small, manageable steps. Throughout the 6 weeks, I was able to spend more time being intentional about the teachers that I serve through active listening, 5-minute coaching conversations, and building relationships. I was able to apply Dr. Buskey’s core principle of putting People Before tasks into daily action.  I enjoyed this time examining my own strengths and weaknesses as a leader and would highly recommend this process for other assistant principals, regardless of your years of experience. 

Gina Stevenson, Assistant Principal,
​Early Childhood Center, Lexington4, SC