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Authentic Leadership in Action: Marlon Styles Brags About What’s Right in Public Education
Manage episode 490552619 series 3478139
🎙️Join us on An Imperfect Leader with trailblazing Marlon Styles!🎙️
This week on An Imperfect Leader: The Superintendents and Leadership Podcast, we get to feature Marlon Styles, former Superintendent of Middletown City School District (OH) and current Partner at the Learner Center Collaborative. 🏫💼
🏆 Named K12 Dive’s Superintendent of the Year in 2020, Marlon is a fierce advocate for educational equity and a visionary leader in learner-centered education.
In this powerful conversation, Marlon shares lessons on leadership, innovation, and community engagement.
Here are 3️⃣ themes you won’t want to miss:
🚀 Embracing Imperfect Leadership & Chasing Progress, Not Perfection: Marlon reminds us that great leadership means owning mistakes, elevating others, and staying grounded in humility.
✨ Championing Learner-Centered Education & The Power of Bragging: At Learner Center Collaborative, Marlon envisions systems where every learner thrives. He encourages leaders to “drown out the negative” by bragging about the amazing work happening in schools. 📸📢
💡 Strategic Innovation Through Capacity Building & Advocacy: Under his leadership, Middletown earned the ISTE Distinguished District Award 🏅 by building staff capacity and embracing innovation:
- 🕶️ VR art courses
- 🎮 eSports teams
- 🚀 Digital Leader Bootcamps
Follow Guest Marlon Styles on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlonstylesjr/
Follow Host Peter Stiepleman on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-stiepleman-76004819a/ Website: https://imperfectleader.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animperfectleader/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@animperfectleader
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Imperfect Leader is sponsored by Yondr. Schools around the world are seeing the damaging effects of phones on student engagement, social development, and mental health. Yondr has developed a unique product and program to allow schools to become phone-free, from arrival to dismissal. Learn why 1 Million Students use Yondr every day. MINIMIZE DISTRACTIONS. MAXIMIZE LEARNING POTENTIAL. Go to https://www.overyondr.com/ to learn more.
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An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action is supported by ILAA, LLC, a firm dedicated to supporting aspiring, new, and established leaders. For more information, please find them at https://imperfectleader.com/
Music for An Imperfect Leader was written and arranged by Ian Varley.
Sam Falbo created our artwork, a wood-print inspired daruma doll butterfly.
146 episodes
Manage episode 490552619 series 3478139
🎙️Join us on An Imperfect Leader with trailblazing Marlon Styles!🎙️
This week on An Imperfect Leader: The Superintendents and Leadership Podcast, we get to feature Marlon Styles, former Superintendent of Middletown City School District (OH) and current Partner at the Learner Center Collaborative. 🏫💼
🏆 Named K12 Dive’s Superintendent of the Year in 2020, Marlon is a fierce advocate for educational equity and a visionary leader in learner-centered education.
In this powerful conversation, Marlon shares lessons on leadership, innovation, and community engagement.
Here are 3️⃣ themes you won’t want to miss:
🚀 Embracing Imperfect Leadership & Chasing Progress, Not Perfection: Marlon reminds us that great leadership means owning mistakes, elevating others, and staying grounded in humility.
✨ Championing Learner-Centered Education & The Power of Bragging: At Learner Center Collaborative, Marlon envisions systems where every learner thrives. He encourages leaders to “drown out the negative” by bragging about the amazing work happening in schools. 📸📢
💡 Strategic Innovation Through Capacity Building & Advocacy: Under his leadership, Middletown earned the ISTE Distinguished District Award 🏅 by building staff capacity and embracing innovation:
- 🕶️ VR art courses
- 🎮 eSports teams
- 🚀 Digital Leader Bootcamps
Follow Guest Marlon Styles on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlonstylesjr/
Follow Host Peter Stiepleman on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-stiepleman-76004819a/ Website: https://imperfectleader.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animperfectleader/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@animperfectleader
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Imperfect Leader is sponsored by Yondr. Schools around the world are seeing the damaging effects of phones on student engagement, social development, and mental health. Yondr has developed a unique product and program to allow schools to become phone-free, from arrival to dismissal. Learn why 1 Million Students use Yondr every day. MINIMIZE DISTRACTIONS. MAXIMIZE LEARNING POTENTIAL. Go to https://www.overyondr.com/ to learn more.
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An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action is supported by ILAA, LLC, a firm dedicated to supporting aspiring, new, and established leaders. For more information, please find them at https://imperfectleader.com/
Music for An Imperfect Leader was written and arranged by Ian Varley.
Sam Falbo created our artwork, a wood-print inspired daruma doll butterfly.
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