Episode 39 - Trelane Clark - Positive Pandemic Principal
Join Adam & Jeff as we chat with 1st year principal Trelane Clark!
Trelane’s Leader Journey
14 years old - knew she wanted to be an educator
Amazing educators as a student
Wanted to have her own school
Simmons College - Boston, MA
Taught 17 years
Public & Private schools
24th year in education
Lack of resources is biggest difference in sectors she has worked
Has worked as an assistant principal for 9 years
“The Pandemic Principal” - 1st year principal
Challenge along Your Journey
Likes to look at the positive side of a challenge - more of an opportunity
Has been, at times, the only black woman at schools where she has worked
Has felt she needed to downplay who she is to be able to work, bring her “full self” to work.
Has begun doing more equity work in the past couple of years
Equity Conversation
Culturally responsive teaching - adults should be doing the exact same thing
HEART work
If it’s not in you, it can’t come out of you
First job is as a mother
Affirm your kids as who they are, give them models
We can’t be “Box-Checkers” in this work
Hopeful
My own children. Hopeful for equity advocates who are deep in this work.
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Trelane Clark Website Link
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