The document discusses the goals and ideas of Connected Principals, a movement to promote sharing, learning, and leading among principals. It advocates for building relationships and making student needs the top priority. Connected Principals wants to model life-long learning for students by connecting principals globally and locally to learn from each other through discussions on social media. The overall goal is to build leadership capacity and motivate principals by sharing ideas.

1. The Connected Principal Sharing. Learning. Leading.

2. The Connected Principal http://www.connectedprincipals.com

3. Share your learning #cpchat http://bit.ly/conprin20

4. About Us Patrick George

5. "Being open should be not a mantra or philosophy, but a considered, rigorous approach to strategy and leadership that yields real results." Charlene Li, Open Leadership

6. Goals for today Discuss the "Why" of Connected Principals. Discuss the impact this type of movement can have in education. Moving Forward.

7. Key Focus: Relationships

8. The Guiding Principles http://www.connectedprincipals.com/guiding-principles "1.All of our decisions focus first on what meets the needs of the children we serve. All other elements of our decision making process are secondary to this objective. The students we serve are our greatest resource in schools."

9. The Idea From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uaeincredible/1458303830/

10. "You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." - Ken Kesey

11. The Idea

12. The Process From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/5389469016/

13. The Process From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4749431651/

14. The Why http://www.flickr.com/photos/openpad/3718789722/

15. Connecting

16. Connecting

17. The Impact

18. Making Connections

19. Shared Learning

20. Shared Learning

21. Shared Learning

22. Shared Learning

23. Moving Forward

24. Start Global, Build Local

25. Building Capacity

26. Why We Do This? From: http://www.polyvore.com/motivation_saying_images.com_part/thing?id=17194657

27. If we want this for our kids, shouldn't we model it ourselves?

28. Contact Us George Couros Twitter : @gcouros Email : gec127@gmail.com Website : georgecouros.ca Patrick Larkin Twitter : @bhsprincipal Email : burlingtonhigh@gmail.com Website : http://burlingtonhigh.blogspot.com/ http://connectedprincipals.com

29. Resources Connected Principals: http://connectedprincipals.com George's Blog: http://georgecouros.ca Patrick's Blog: http://burlingtonhigh.blogspot.com/ An Open Letter to School Administrators: http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/37 CP on Twitter: http://twitter.com/conprin CP on Facebook: www. facebook .com/pages/ Connected - Principals /159329780752918

30. Resources No Office Day: http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/1850 Reverse Instruction: http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/1534 Inspiration Delivers: http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/1676 Fed Ex Prep Time: http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/1430 Start Global, Build Local: http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/1823