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Jethro Jones is a school principal in Kodiak, Alaska. He currently serves as the 2nd counselor in his ward’s bishopric, and has also served as elder’s quorum president, and Sunday School president. He shares from his interesting experience being a member in Alaska and the challenges that come to running a ward on an island.
Jethro also runs two different podcasts that I would recommend you check out.
Transformative Principal – Jethro interviews other school principals that have made a difference or have a unique approach to their job.
Learned in Primary – Jethro Jones and his co-host analyze various popular books and apply them to the LDS world. They seek for truth and ways to improve LDS lives through these well-researched books.
Jethro’s 5 Keys to Leadership
- Know what stories you are telling yourself (Jethro wrote a great article about this principle)
- Empathy – start with good intentions
- Ask Questions
- Let your testimony shine through no matter what you are doing.
- “Tell me more…”
Other Links:
“Words Home Teachers Should Never Speak”
Kodiak principal receives national recognition for digital initiatives
As principal of Kodiak Middle School, Jethro Jones said he wanted to improve students’ sense of belonging at school, so he assembled a group of staff members who volunteered to go to the students’ homes one day last summer.
“Our goal was to visit the home of every single kid and make sure they knew that we cared about them,” the 35-year-old principal said in an interview on Tuesday, a day after an announcement from the leading national secondary school principal association that he had been named a “digital principal of the year.”
Jones said staff told those students that they looked forward to seeing them at school. They took photos together. They danced to a pop song by Justin Timberlake. Jones later stitched together the collection of videos and images from the day and set the montage to music. Students watched it on the first day of school, he said.
See rest of the article published in thee Alaska Dispatch
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/education/2017/06/06/kodiak-principal-receives-national-recognition-for-digital-initiatives/