Seeing The Whole Staircase

Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan is the founder of Dr. Karen, LLC, a company focused on empowering educators to support language, literacy, executive functioning, and cognitive wellness. She currently offers professional development focused on helping K-12 teams develop programs and services that support students in the areas of leadership, language, literacy, and executive functioning. Dr. Karen is a licensed SLP and has a doctorate in special education, a special education director license, and an assistive technology graduate certificate. She spent 14 years in the school systems before starting her online education company in 2015. She's currently the host of the De Facto Leaders podcast.

Key Takeaways:

• It is important to step out of your current situation to think about where you want to be 5 years down the road because it is natural to change.
• There are cracks in everything, but the cracks shine the light in.
• People can't take the first step towards progress if they can't see the staircase.
• Sometimes people don't move not because they are unwilling, but because it's an issue of clarity.
• The most difficult tasks or projects can be overcome when they are chunked, broken down, an explained in small sections.
• The "automatic skills" versus "learned strategies" discussion we have is very powerful and circles back to the idea of seeing the whole staircase.
• You can take the person out of teaching, but not the teacher out of the person.
• People need to know the systems and the processes to get those smaller wins.

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