April Gaydosh is an Administrator of Schools for Jordan School District in West Jordan, Utah. She has previously held positions as a building level principal, assistant principal, high school teacher, and an adjunct college faculty member in both North Carolina and Alabama. She is always looking for new challenges and thrives in environments where creativity/innovation is encouraged and expected!
Show Highlights
What game are you playing with yourself?
A robust way to optimize your potential and set your goals, not choose a goal.
Tailored PD that is collaborative, interactive, and practical to hone in on exactly what you need.
Over Deliver and maximize your PD time.
PD that covers multiple levels with multiple tools to connect with your yearly goals.
PD with Intentional messaging to different audiences.
A training tool and a protocol to create solutions.
“Another piece that I think I liked about it was, it wasn't like this one message with this one tool, and they we're gonna kind of belabor this. It was, ‘Here's this great story. Here's maybe a problem you're dealing with. Here's a great tool, let's practice it.’ And then another, you were able to touch on different things that people were connecting to in different ways. It wasn't like this one and done, there were multiple levels, multiple tools that they could connect with.”
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