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Dismantling Bullsh*t In K-12 Education Since 2007.

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Ken Williams
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You want me to ignore my staffs' combined 8M dollars worth of degrees and make a kid's neighborhood more impactful than them? You've lost your natural mind. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #atRTIaw #leadership #Teachers #k12 @solutiontree
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If you call them LOW, you'll teach them LOW! More times than not, your beliefs about students will be proven right... #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity
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Ken Williams
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How To "Fit In" PLCs When Your Plate Is FULL. This work is 50/50 MINDSET and Practice! Share the love...spread the word...and reach out if your school needs support with this. #atplc #StartWithTheCROWN
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I am, because he is....
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This is why I don't argue anymore. If you insist your kids are LOW, you'll be right. You'll also be right if you focus on teams bringing forth student brilliance. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #TeachTimmy @SamsConnect
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Ken Williams
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Many schools live in the purgatory of #PLC Lite because they value activity in place of results. Know that when you partner with me, in 3hrs I'm going to clear the air, quiet the noise and leave you nowhere to run. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity
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His love, support and mentoring never waivers, never wanes, is consistent, abundant and appreciated. As with all my treasured mentors, my goal is to provide a payoff for his investment. Being in the same space with Dr. Anthony Muhammad is a gift. #StartWithTheCROWN @newfrontier21
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Ken Williams
5 years
If you call them LOW, you'll teach them LOW...if I delivered PD to your staff, and made it clear that I thought u were LOW, would I get the BEST version of u that day? #ruthlessmindset #StartingAMovement #WeDisLABLEkids #WordsHaveWeight #atplc #weleaded #edchat #satchat
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Ken Williams
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There are few things more impactful than a teacher who sees more in a student than the student sees in himself. The impact can be life-altering when s(he) challenges the student to grow tall enough to share that vision. Teachers, you ARE the difference. #StartWithTheCROWN .
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Ken Williams
2 years
An under appreciated aspect of leadership is the need for the leader to make tough choices. #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc #leadership #suptchat #RuthlessEquity #k12schools #Equity #THATSchool
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Ken Williams
7 months
Off the road until 11/29. The yin/yang of LOVING my work is also enjoying time off. Betting on yourself is worth the risk, failures, unknowns, doubts, and detractors. Looking fwd to writing, resting, connecting, & bowling, baby! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthulessEquity #atplc #RTIAW
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Ken Williams
2 years
Honored and excited to deliver the opening keynote for the @NCTM Conference in Baltimore! I expect to meet many #RuthlessEquity warriors here! #StartWithTheCROWN #NCTMBALT22
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Ken Williams
2 years
Kids of color don't need you to learn rap music...they need you to teach like they're gifted. #RuthlessEquity p. 156. #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
1 year
Reading tweets from my keynote at the #RTIAW Summit. My first event since our family suffered a tragic loss. The response, energy, connection, feedback, IS overwhelming. #LoveAmir #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #TeachTimmy @solutiontree @mikemattos65
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Ken Williams
3 years
PLEASE STOP CALLING YOURSELF A PLC! It’s time to bust some bubbles-When you treat becoming a PLC like it’s a spray-on tan, it erodes the credibility of the process. RTs n Shares pls! 4help: . #Equity #StartWithTheCROWN #ThoughtOfTheDay #atplc #edchat
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Ken Williams
2 years
I have no idea what proper etiquette is when you're excited...but, I'm going to be in CELEBRATION mode for a bit. My new book is out and I'm PROUD of it and hope it serves you as intended. It has been a challenging journey! #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #suptchat #RuthlessEquity
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Ken Williams
3 years
I’ve issued an official LEARNING LOSS MANDATE for schools! Take heed and take cover baby! The answers are in the room! #StartWithTheCROWN #YourGrumpyUncle #equity #suptchat #PrincipalOfficeHours #atplc #k12schools #education #edutwitter #RuthlessEquity #leadership
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Ken Williams
3 years
A LOW Group by ANY name...
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Ken Williams
1 year
Pumped as I head to deliver my new keynote: No Passive Path To #Equity at the RTI at Work Summit in Austin. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity @mikemattos65 @lcruzconsulting @solutiontree @Giants
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Ken Williams
3 years
#LEADERS , you can't #TedTalk , conference, or book study ur #teachers into buy-in. These may create epiphanies. Here’s how buy-in happens, and u may take a hit in the process. It's the blessed burden of #leadership . #StartWithTheCROWN #Equity #edutwitter #suptchat #RuthlessEquity
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Ken Williams
11 months
Leaders, when your teachers engage in the endless cycling through the 4 PLC questions with no payoff, you’re giving them participation trophies. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC #RTIAW
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Ken Williams
5 years
Awesome Dad moment. Mia needed a change of scenery to write...so we decided on a 'writing date.' I'm finishing the manuscript for my FIRST solo authored book. Mia is responding to edits from the awesome @lindsayalinagraham of her SECOND full length novel. Yeah...second novel.
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Ken Williams
2 years
I worked to spoil the hell out of my staff while never losing sight of this principle. #StartWithTheCROWN #Equity #Leadership #atplc #Suptchat #edutwitter
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Ken Williams
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This quote embodies the third rule of ruthlessness, A Commitment to #StartWithTheCROWN . #RuthlessEquity #atPLC #Equity #suptchat #PLC
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Ken Williams
4 years
With so many distractions and energy vampires descending on educators, this is more important now than ever! #StartingAMovement #StartWithTheCrown @thierck @SolutionTree
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Ken Williams
2 years
A leader's effectiveness can be determined by the worst behavior they're willing to tolerate - Rick DuFour. Too many leaders victimize kids because they're not CLEAR w/expectations or don't want to confront adults. #RuthlessEquity #StartWithTheCROWN #atPLC #Equity #suptchat
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Ken Williams
2 years
We are digging into the damage of labels in my At-Risk or Under-served workshop at the PLC Institute in Minneapolis! #RuthlessEquity #Complacency #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat #teachersoftwitter @solutiontree
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Ken Williams
1 year
In a PLC, the CFA provides context for how you're going to ensure mastery. CFA data INFORMS your next steps, not CONFIRM what you thought about the student. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy @solutiontree
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Ken Williams
3 years
First solo authored book manuscript submitted. Please take a moment of silence for my editor. More to come soon! #StartWithatheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #equity #atplc
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Ken Williams
2 years
Running into my brother on this #mission driven journey never gets old! We both finished a day of work in Iowa. It made for a great surprise when I saw him board the same flight! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity
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Ken Williams
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A2. When you lower the standard based on student adversity, it's NOT LOVE. You're crippling students, creating victims, and opening the way to entitlement. Your tears and sad eyes while you lower the standard doesn't move me. It angers me. #RuthlessEquity
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Ken Williams
2 years
Teachers, would I get your best during PL after you learned that I decided YOU were LOW? Is there a cute nickname I can use to make you feel better? #lowbabies #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc #leadership #suptchat #RuthlessEquity #k12schools #Equity #THATSchool
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Ken Williams
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Principals, I don't care how horrible a picture you paint about how busy you are, even when they act like they care, they don't. Here's what your people care about.. #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc #leadership #suptchat #RuthlessEquity #k12schools #Equity #THATSchool
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Ken Williams
4 years
When we call them LOW, we teach them LOW...and then kids make our dream come true...they rise to our low expectations. The rub is...the opposite is true as well... #kennethcwilliams #authenticEDU #atplc #WeLeadEd #schoolculture #edchat #satchat #leadlap #leadupchat #caedchat
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Ensuring #equity requires a level of ruthlessness in this regard. #RuthlessEquity #StartWithTheCROWN #atPLC #suptchat
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Ken Williams
1 year
Doesn't matter when or how...it's ALWAYS the right time to connect with my man @PrincipalKafele ! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity
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Ken Williams
2 years
Non-stop signing, packing, and shipping! I'm on a mission to get this book in the hands of every #educator in America. #RuthlessEquity is a gamechanger. #Students can't afford for me to be humble about #equity . #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #k12schools #SuptChat
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Ken Williams
3 years
Principals do you survey your incoming 9th graders to learn more about them, understand their hopes and dreams, what they’re proud of, scared of, what they’ve overcome, what life story they want to write? What questions do you ask? Asking for a friend. @PrincipalCahill
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Ken Williams
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Hoping Matthew McConaughey @mcconaughey is excited about this opportunity :-). @jillmsiler . Honored to serve at this awesome conf! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC #RTIAW
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Ken Williams
3 years
Two men. Two different destinations. Two delayed flights. Always great to run into THIS guy @casas_jimmy . A long night of travel just got a little better! Heading to The EPIC @CASE_Leaders conference in Breck! #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
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Non-stop signing, packing, and shipping! I'm on a mission to get this book in the hands of every #educator in America. #RuthlessEquity is a gamechanger. #Students can't afford for me to be humble about #equity . #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #k12schools #SuptChat
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Ken Williams
5 years
Working with Prosper Independent School District...grappling with the tough questions around student learning. Refreshing to see a high performing district not settling for Learning for SOME! Solution Tree @ProsperISD
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8 years
We can do this when we commit to collective commitments around several high leverage best practices! @DFISHERSDSU @MHEducation DF droppin it
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Ken Williams
6 months
Just finished LAYING it the HELL DOWN at Learning Forward. The #RuthlessEquity Roadshow is transformative. Keynoting this great conf is a goal. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #RTIaw #leadership #Teachers #k12 #learnfwd23 @ACSA_info
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Ken Williams
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Tho we've worked together for almost a decade, seeing Dr. Marzano doesn't get old...and to have him introduce me...PUREfanboy moment... @SolutionTree @robertjmarzano @MarzanoResearch #atplc @thierck @STreeJeffJones . Mind blown that we're doing a 2day workshop on our book!
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Ken Williams
4 years
It LOOKS LIKE sincere concern, and it SMELLS LIKE care…but in the end, it’s actually unintended Pobrecito/Bless His Heart 2.0. #StartWithTheCROWN #StartingAMovement #atplc #THATschool
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Ken Williams
4 years
Even in these uncertain and unprecedented times, what you FOCUS on, GROWS. So, be mindful of where you’re investing most of your energy and attention. #THATschool #StartingAMovement #atplc #DECIDE #UnfoldTheSoul
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Ken Williams
1 year
Anyone planning to read Ruthless Equity to start 2023? #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity
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Ken Williams
3 years
Sometimes I wish someone would give me a ZERO. But, when the work is essential, it almost never happens. People follow up until I follow through. This is how the REAL WORLD works…pls share and RT. @DouglasReeves #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc
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Ken Williams
1 year
Students SENTENCED to LOW groups (of ANY fancy name) cannot benefit from equitable practice. #Equity and the PRISON of permanent below-grade level instruction cannot co-exist. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #TeachTimmy
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Ken Williams
7 years
‘Bout to BUST the room fire code at #SAICONF17 in Des Moines! Im STOKED!!!!
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Ken Williams
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Be THIS teacher for your students. Students K through 12 will respond positively to this. #THATSchool #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #PLC #RTIAW
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100% of schools have teachers meeting together. About 25% of those are REAL TEAMS. The missing link in the other 75% is INTERDEPENDENCE, which isn't a feeling; it's a construct. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool
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Ken Williams
4 years
Next debate... the moderator needs the ability to silence BOTH mics! This thing has me DRINKING my dinner!
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Ken Williams
3 years
Just helped to deliver a great day of PD...needed it more than I knew. Setbacks are set ups for comebacks! #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
2 years
When we lean into excuses for why students don't learn, it's Complacency...if she's poor, LOW, from THATside of town, or doesn't speak the King's English, then I don't have to get better. #RuthlessEquity #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat #teachersoftwitter
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Ken Williams
1 year
Anyone planning to read Ruthless Equity to start 2023? #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity
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Ken Williams
2 years
Dr. Luis Cruz is about to miss his flight. I feel bad, but I can't blame him... #RuthlessEquity #Complacency #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat #teachersoftwitter
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Starting PLCI Long Beach by honoring Rick and Becky DuFour @SolutionTree #atplc Found myself still looking for them
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Ken Williams
2 years
Changing the world often comes down to the little things we do to leave a place better than we found it. #RuthlessEquity #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat #k12schools #teachersoftwitter
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Ken Williams
2 years
So many school leaders struggle with "getting everyone on board" and engaged doing the right work. Everyone on board means everyone WORKING on the right WORK. Attitude change comes after new results. #RuthlessEquity #Complacency #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat
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Ken Williams
2 years
You cannot achieve equity while students are taught below grade level all year long. Disrupt something! #RuthlessEquity will show you the way. #StartWithTheCROWN
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4 years
(tissue alert) To shake my own funk, I left my home w/intentions 2 cheer up our 5yr old neighbor, as his 6th bday comes amid this crisis. In trying 2make HIS day, he made MINE. The POWER of human connection is REAL. #StartingAMovement #atplc #DECIDE @SolutionTree #UnfoldTheSoul
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Ken Williams
2 years
If it doesn't work in EDUCATOR world, then it shouldn't be done in STUDENT world. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #atPLC #PLC #Equity #suptchat #teachersoftwitter
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Ken Williams
8 years
NO student has ever died fr high expectations heaped upon them by caring educators. STOP hugging n DUMBING down the learning! #2nthru #atplc
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Ken Williams
5 years
Preparing to burn the building down at the Arkansas Association of Education Administration Leadership Retreat! @SolutionTree #atplc
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Ken Williams
11 months
The Ruthless Equity Roadshow continues! This week i land in Fargo, work with Moorhead Schools in MN, Kannapolis Schools in NC, and Vestavia in North Birmingham, AL! Let’s be the change! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC #RTIAW
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Ken Williams
3 years
Deficit speech leads to deficit thinking...deficit thinking leads to deficit lens...and deficit results. I no longer use the term : "at-risk." @PrincipalKafele #SAM2021 #equity #suptchat #atplc #k12schools #education #edutwitter #RuthlessEquity #leadership #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
1 year
With so much misinformation and ambiguity around #equity , I'm not shocked that some have banned it from policy. However, if any politician, school board, or leader bans THIS definition, they should be run OUT of office on skates. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #TeachTimmy
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Ken Williams
5 years
React.
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Ken Williams
10 months
I wish the work of the great @alfiekohn got more traction. Took a while, but I'm entirely on board with his ideas around HW and kids/teachers doing double shifts daily. #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC #RTIAW
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Ken Williams
3 years
Universal TRUTH! The answers are in the room. #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
8 years
The Godfather keynotes at the PLC conf in San Antonio. Sounding great and showing boundless courage. #atplc
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Ken Williams
5 years
If this message hits you where you live, then please take a moment to share or RT. #MissionDrivenMindset #ruthlessmindset #2nthruTheBAR
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1 year
Ruthless Equity is one of three finalists for the Independent Book Publishers Association #BenjaminFranklinAwards . Paperback, audiobook, and ebook are available on all platforms!. @ibpa #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC
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Heading to airport after burning down the building @HillsboroughSch ldrshp conf. They identify elephants in the room, so I felt at home.
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Ken Williams
9 months
After two weeks off, The #RuthlessEquity Roadshow is back on! Honored to keynote the TASA/TASB in Dallas! 5,500 school board members and supts! Im pumped! #StartWithTheCROWN #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #RTIAW #leadership #TxEDCON23 @TASAnet #thepeteandsebastianshow
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Ken Williams
1 year
No matter how sweetly you say it, LOW LABELS violate SEL principles and impede #equity ! #THATSchool #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #PLC #RTIAW
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3 years
The moving parts of a PLC are not the PURPOSE of a PLC. Effective PLCs begin with a clear understanding OUTCOMES and PURPOSE. Anything short of clarity sabotages your efforts! Pls share and RT #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc #equity - For support
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Ken Williams
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Relationships without rigor is a scented form of COMPLACENCY and LOW Expectations. Stop letting your FEAR keep you from being your BEST! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity #atplc #TeachTimmy #THATSchool #PLC #RTIAW
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When student adversity leads 2lower expectations, you’re doing CHARITY work n contributing 2victimhood, entitlement, and low ambition, even when sympathy is soaked in #LOVE . Adversity should trigger loving URGENCY, 4 #education is the great equalizer. #StartWithTheCROWN #Equity
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3 years
Me and My Girl...when asked what I do for fun: "I run errands for no reason." Thx to Team @PureGrin #StartWithTheCROWN
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Ken Williams
2 years
Misplaced sympathy smells like cotton candy but is NOT love! Understand the fine line between PITY and PURPOSE! #RuthlessEquity #atPLC #StartWithTheCROWN #PLC #Equity #suptchat #k12schools #teachersoftwitter
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Ken Williams
1 year
Connecting with my friend and colleague Dr. Doug Reeves is one thing...to hear him quote your work is some surreal stuff. Thank you for supporting #RuthlessEquity and what's best for ALL students! #StartWithTheCROWN #RuthlessEquity #Equity
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Students spend MOST of the WAKING hours with US. When will we finally stop making what they don't have at home the reason why they can't learn at school? #StartWithTheCROWN #atplc #leadership #suptchat #RuthlessEquity #k12schools #Equity #THATSchool
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