In addition to weekly meetings with team leaders and other school committees, each year she picks a grade level to work with, facilitating their learning. When Lake Wilderness teachers attend institutes, they spend half a day with Ruth when they return debriefing her and planning how they will share what they have learned with the rest of the staff. She is trying to hone her questioning abilities so that she can be an effective second set of eyes for her teachers. I've watched us grow over the past six years. Rarely do staff come to me asking me to fix things.
People come in now with solutions.
I'd like to think my focus on personal efficacy is, in part, responsible. I've always been fascinated with the dynamics of relationships, how we take people from different places, put them together, and then see how they respond. And, I guess I just like to learn.