Have a Good Life: Build, Don’t Copy with Rob Carroll Transformative Principal 103

Build, Don’t Copy with Rob Carroll Transformative Principal 103

Sunday, December 20, 2015 by jethrojones

Rob Carroll

Principal of South Heights Elementary in his 20th year. Rob doesn’t just look at his students currently, he has a much bigger vision of what they can accomplish and how they can make life better forever. Rob keeps in contact with kids who went to The 1199 many years ago and makes sure that they can still find ways to be successful.

Man cave show on home and garden channel gave them at
Own version of Harlem Children’s Zone
Timeline of success milestone
From conception to career, how does every child succeed.
Not just a K–5 school. We help them after they move on. Help them in high school. Help them for college applications.
We really love our students.
Circle of life sustains change.
11 years of doing college tours.
Kids had an unrealistic expectation of college.
K goes to local community college
Each grade goes to a different college.
Our 5th graders understand more about college than a lot of juniors and seniors.
If it’s good enough for my biological kids, it’s good enough for all kids.
Former kids of South Heights are the tour guides at the colleges.
Everyone can lead. Ideas rule, not people.
College tours are my baby, but everyone else leads something in our school.
As long as the idea matches the vision and mission, we say go for it!
What do our great people need to be inspired and successful?
Failures recently?
We love each other as a team.
Thought we could build our own leadership curriculum ourselves, but it didn’t work out very well.
Build, don’t copy.
You’ve only got so many shots at the same idea as a leader.
You can get a little full of yourself sometimes.
Respect the awesomeness of the task.