{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ronderings","title":"Lead With Love, Not Fear: People Strategy, Talent Systems, and Rebuilding a Career in K-12 Education (with Sean Precious)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3979,"description":"When Sean Precious was thirteen, he finally told his father what middle school had been like: he was bullied, picked on for his last name, and struggling to make friends. His father told him that everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time. He did not understand it then, but he believes it planted the humility that has shaped how he leads ever since.\nIn this episode of Ronderings, Sean Precious, chief academic officer of Together4Schools, a consulting firm that coaches leaders and helps school districts, charter networks and state education departments carry out their plans, talks about people strategy in K-12 education, why becoming a manager does not make anyone good at managing people, and leading from love instead of fear.\nHe began his career as a teacher through Teach For America, led a school in Washington, DC, supervised principals in Denver Public Schools, served as charter authorizer for Chicago Public Schools, and most recently was interim chief people officer at Alliance College-Ready in Los Angeles. Along the way he has watched systems fill vacancies without a talent strategy, promote strong teachers and coaches into management without teaching them to hold a one-on-one, and blame downhill, from state departments to districts to principals to teachers.\nHe is just as candid about his own career. After his role as an assistant superintendent was eliminated, hiring managers told him more than once that they had wanted to offer him the job, but he had bombed the interview. He paid for coaching he did not want, and he made a list of 100 people from LinkedIn and asked each of them for advice, conversations that led to his first three clients.\nHis Rondering is to stop thinking you have to have all the answers, and to remember that there is a human at the end of every decision, every Google Doc and every email.\nChapters:\n\nReferenced in this episode:\nResults are in: Mississippi students No. 1 in the country for reading gains -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jvG73cd3wc0Fdf0M72sv961IPvlbb4AzdtSqHEUr3iE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MjYyLzE2NzE3/OTA1MTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}