Transformational Educators | School Leadership Stories
Dr. Matthew Flippen
11 episodes
1 day ago
How do you transform a school that’s lost its way? Dr. Catherine Kennedy did it through trust, not titles. In this episode of Transformational Educators, host Matthew Flippen speaks with Dr. Catherine Kennedy of the Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents. When she arrived at Valley View Middle School in El Paso, the campus was in transition, low morale, academic underperformance, and faculty uncertainty. What happened next was a multi-year journey of trust-building, vu...
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How do you transform a school that’s lost its way? Dr. Catherine Kennedy did it through trust, not titles. In this episode of Transformational Educators, host Matthew Flippen speaks with Dr. Catherine Kennedy of the Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents. When she arrived at Valley View Middle School in El Paso, the campus was in transition, low morale, academic underperformance, and faculty uncertainty. What happened next was a multi-year journey of trust-building, vu...
How One Principal Rebuilt a Broken School Culture | Transformational Educators Ep. 6
Transformational Educators | School Leadership Stories
19 minutes
1 month ago
How One Principal Rebuilt a Broken School Culture | Transformational Educators Ep. 6
What does it really take to turn around a hurting school, without losing your soul in the process? In this episode of Transformational Educators, host Matthew Flippen sits down with Jim Vasquez, now Superintendent of Socorro ISD, to uncover the leadership journey that began at Horizon Heights Elementary, a campus with five principals in ten years. Jim shares how he built trust through one-on-one conversations, why culture must always come before strategy, and how he led with both courage and...
Transformational Educators | School Leadership Stories
How do you transform a school that’s lost its way? Dr. Catherine Kennedy did it through trust, not titles. In this episode of Transformational Educators, host Matthew Flippen speaks with Dr. Catherine Kennedy of the Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents. When she arrived at Valley View Middle School in El Paso, the campus was in transition, low morale, academic underperformance, and faculty uncertainty. What happened next was a multi-year journey of trust-building, vu...
