UCET Podcast with Kiera Beddes

Professional Learning with Skillful Leaders: Featuring Katie Dewey Hill and Davina Sauthoff

Episode Summary

This season, we will be exploring USBE's professional learning standards, by diving into the second standard of Skillful Leaders. In this episode, we'll explore how effective leadership plays a pivotal role in developing capacity, advocating for growth, and creating robust support systems. Join us as we discuss strategies and share insights from seasoned leaders Davina Sauthoff, UELMA director and Katie Dewey Hill, USBE Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Specialist. Let's learn how to lead, together!

Episode Notes

Our hosts, Kiera and Derek, sat down with two specialists at the Utah State Board of Education, Davina Sauthoff and Katie Dewey Hill to discuss the professional learning standard of Skillful Leader. Find the rest of the standards here: https://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/educatordevelopment/professionallearning 

Over the course of the episode, we dive into some of the following questions:

  1. Why is it important for leaders to be vulnerable?
  2. How do leaders “fill their own bucket” to prevent burnout and continue to support their teachers?
  3. How does an effective leader help an ineffective teacher?

At the end of the episode, we have a "Media Moment" to reflect on the library media standards - reading engagement, information & research, and media literacy - and how they affect our classrooms and communities.

Thanks to Derek & Kiera for hosting and for Matt Winters' help in sound editing!

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