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“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆: 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎, 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.” – 𝐿𝑒𝑎ℎ 𝐸𝑙𝑙𝑖

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“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆: 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎, 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.” – 𝐿𝑒𝑎ℎ 𝐸𝑙𝑙𝑖

"𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏

“ 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒔 , 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒍 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏 ’ 𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 .” - Erik Twist , President & Principa

“ 𝑺𝒐 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 , 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 .” – Kiernan Fiore , Director of Academics, Holy Innocents School In this episode, Kiernan shows how

" 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 ." - 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎 ( 𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑦

" 𝑴𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 , 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 ." - 𝐽𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛 , 𝑂𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑒 Are

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕-𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔

" 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ." - 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝐽𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 , 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 Da

"𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕." - 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝐴𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑑 , 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑙𝑦𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 �

"𝑾𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒆𝒕." - 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑎

"𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆." - 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑄 . 𝐻𝑎𝑜 , 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 & 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐

" 𝐀𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 , 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 .." - Angie Taylor , Co-founder at Valor Christian School International This

"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍." - 𝑇�

"𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘." - 𝐺𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑛 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 , 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝐴𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 In this episode, Gle

"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒊�

" 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 , 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ' 𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 . 𝐵𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 ." - 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑘𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑠

" 𝑊𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 ." - 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡 𝐵𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 , 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎

"𝑻𝒐 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖

"𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕." - 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐽𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛, 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑦 Terese Jurgensen has

"𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬." - 𝑅. 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝐾𝑜𝑐ℎ , 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 & 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑟
Craig Randall
former principal, counselor, author of Trust-Based Observations · Trust Based Observations
1 appearance on this show
Dana James
MS, CNS
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Tiffany Smith
Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee and Mental Health and Addiction Support Specialist · Hillside Christian Academy
1 appearance on this show
Bishop Kevin Foreman
pastor, author, entrepreneur, success coach · Harvest Church
1 appearance on this show
Roger Devine
Schoolauction.net
1 appearance on this show
Nick Reeves
Head of School · New Braunfels Christian Academy
1 appearance on this show
Erika Bare
Superintendent
1 appearance on this show
Tiffany Burns
Principal
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Chris Hobbs
former police officer · Second Baptist School (TX)
1 appearance on this show
Max Lyons
Dr.
1 appearance on this show
Jim McKenzie
mold & air quality expert · Greenwood and McKenzie
2 appearances on this show
Soren Schwab
Vice President of Partnerships at the Classic Learning Test · Classical Learning Test
1 appearance on this show
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