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Glen Hill
Welcome to Lead Storyteller, where leadership meets inspiration and every narrative has the power to transform. My name is Glen, and I am proud to serve as a Superintendent. With over a decade of experience in educational leadership, I am passionate about guiding schools, boards, and communities toward excellence through storytelling and servant leadership.
Currently, I am pursuing my Doctorate in Transformative Leadership at Angelo State University, where I continue to expand my knowledge and refine my leadership philosophy. My work extends beyond the district level, as I conduct school board trainings and present at conferences for various professional organizations. These engagements allow me to share practical strategies for transformational leadership, effective communication, and fostering stronger school board relations.
I am a husband to my incredible wife, Kelsea, and a proud father to our two wonderful children, Whitten and Channing. Family is at the heart of everything I do, and it serves as a daily reminder of why educational leadership matters so deeply.
At Lead Storyteller, you’ll find blog posts that inspire, challenge, and equip educational leaders to tell better stories within their organizations. My goal is to help leaders shape the narrative of their schools, boards, and communities—because if we don’t control the story, someone else will.Thank you for visiting. Whether you’re here to read, reflect, or connect, I hope you leave inspired to write your own story of leadership and growth.
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The Lead Storyteller
Schools are like toilets. While everyone has used a toilet, not everyone is qualified to be a plumber. Similarly, just because most people have attended school doesn’t mean they truly understand how it should operate. This isn’t a critique of those who think they know how schools should run or a condemnation of negativity toward schools. Instead, it’s an invitation to do the opposite: to foster relationships with the community, discover what drives them, and leverage that understanding to shape our story. Building meaningful relationships is the most influential thing we can do as leaders (Czyz, 2019). This reflection explores why it’s essential for us to be the lead storytellers in our schools—ensuring our communities truly understand what’s happening. If we don’t take charge of the narrative, someone else will—and the story they tell might not be the story we want told.
What am I currently growing from?
How to get all teachers to become like the best teachers
There are dramatic differences in the quality of teachers in every school. Every building has teachers who consistently engage students and deliver high-quality instruction. Every building also has teachers with varying ranges of ability. If all teachers could be more like the best teachers, then we would have significant improvement in every school.
In this important book, Todd Whitaker demonstrates how this can really be achieved. With inspiration, humor, and practical advice, Whitaker shares the qualities of the best teachers and how we can teach these qualities to others. He shows how the best teachers emphasize the learning relationship; focus only on what they can influence; and use effective classroom management involving filtering, proximity, redirection, and business mode. He then explains how we can coach other teachers by showing, not telling; by creating subcultures and learning experiences; and by leading the way. Finally, Whitaker describes the importance of hiring highly talented people who form new lines rather than fall in line. He provides strategies for asking the right interview questions, for choosing the right mentors, and for selecting the best hosts for student teachers.
No matter how education changes, there are always outstanding teachers making a difference. We can grow our schools by helping even more teachers become exceptional.
Crucial Influence
The world-renowned leadership experts that brought us the leadership classic Crucial Conversations have fully updated their bestselling Crucial Influence (originally published as Influencer). In these pages, they reveal that fewer than one in eight behavior change efforts is successful―and most produce nothing more than wasted resources and organization-wide cynicism.
The solution to this challenge isn’t easy, but it is simple. It’s all about the strategic application of influence―systematic and intentional actions aimed at helping people improve results by changing their behavior―a practice most leaders have yet to fully understand and embrace.
Crucial Influence walks you through the process of identifying the personal, social, and structural levers that influence both motivation and ability, then engaging these levers for directed behavior change.
“At the end of the day, leadership is intentional influence,” the authors write. “If behavior isn’t changing, you aren’t leading.” Whatever you’re seeking to change through effective leadership―from making virtual workforces work to tackling a social issue―influence, not authority, is what will get you there. You’ll learn to view leadership through the new lens of influence as you apply the lessons from this book to everyday challenges.
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