Channel 7700 France - Susan huff

Narrator: The Center for engaged Leadership works in developing leaders and we bring quality leaders from all over the country in to work with our different school districts and today we're at Lakeville public schools working with their administrative team and we've brought in Dr. Susan Huff and Dr. Huff is a principal in Utah schools. She's been a national award winner and she really does a lot of great work around helping schools and administrators turn their districts and schools into professional learning communities. So we sat down with Dr. Huff and we asked her a couple of questions. Dr. Huff: Well as i thought about why i became a principal, I was loving being a classroom teacher. One of my professors in the master program said if you have certain talents and abilities you also have a responsibility share those gifts with others. And that made sense to me and that caused me to step up into the principalship. And then as I thought about all of the things i've learned being a principal now at three schools and helping schools transform as professional learning communites I thought.. I can't really keep that to myself and it's really the same kind of satisfaction working with adult learners with principals that i had working with the class of students. Helping a principal to change practice and transform their practices impacts many many teachers and many students to ultimately help student learning so thats what gives me that passion and zeal for this work. Narrator: So we had a great day in Lakeville schools with Dr. Huff. She really brought home the importance of keeping focused on student achievement and how it's important that we expect all students to learn. She really worked with the administrators on that focus and had aligned with the professional learning community. And her advice and values is really instrumental in us working in the institute and bringing that message home and so we'll be inviting her back again next year to work with another school district