Eric Makelky is the Pinedale Middle School principal in Pinedale, WY. He earned a Bachelors and Master’s degree from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT. Eric has worked as a middle school language arts and social studies teacher, football, wrestling, and track coach, 6–12 instructional facilitator, middle school assistant principal, and Skyline Academy (alternative high school) principal.
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- Your book was based on my beliefs
- Three yearly goals:
- Target was always moving
- What can we do every year, year after year?
- Every student who walks in the school can identify by name one trusted adult.
- Beat state average at reading and math growth
- Demonstrate beliefs behaviors and outcomes that create our school culture.
- Greeting kids by name and in the hall.
- What do you do with those kids that have negative experiences their whole school careers?
- Sticker chart was dumb.
- Staff love connecting with students.
- Strategies for school culture.
- Define the culture that you want in your school.
- The outcomes we want are driven by our behaviors, and our behaviors are driven by our beliefs.
- Anybody can make a poster, but making it happen is where it gets fun.
- You have to call out the behaviors that
- I ask for help, I give help, I care, listen, and communicate.
- Want people to know the culture before they apply.
- Keeping things simple.
- Common language.
- Staff appreciation/recognition
- I feel too appreciated - said no one ever
- You’ve got to help me give staff recognition and appreciation.
- Why teachers don’t get recognition awards.
- Nominate your teachers for awards.
- Have a way to recognize when people do something great.
- Trophy. Saul the saber-tooth tiger
- Growth mindset, stand up and own it, power of the team.
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