Sam LeDeaux is a principal at a K–5 school in metropolitan Chicago. His forté is working well with his parents and staff.

• 62 staff members and 869 parents working together to make things happen!
• Learning that people “somewhere” doing things were actually people who were doing these things right around him.
• Twitter and Social networking have been incredibly transformative and empowering. [#mannschool](https://twitter.com/MsKCairns/status/497443796661960704)
• Transparency is what makes him effective.
• Parents suggest and respond to ways to make his school better through social media.
• We can grow in ways that we never before thought was possible.
• Continuous sharing and positive collaboration makes technology transformative.
• You don’t need to have common planning periods to have time to collaborate.
• How to balance the difficult issues with being transparent.
• It is not about personal performance, it is about service to kids.
• When it is seen as a personal attack, you shut down when you are evaluated. When you see it as improving service to kids, you don’t get upset.
• Peer observations - invite and show the value.
• We do not let schedules get in our way of improving and service to students.
• What is the purpose of peer observations?
• Evaluations should be about growth.

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