S1E3 - Saying Yes to Middle Leadership Roles: Beyond Your Comfort Zone with Antonietta Scriva

Positively Leading

How do leaders in education carve their paths and ignite growth within their teams and themselves? My dear friend Antonietta Scriva joins us on Positively Leading to unravel her leadership tapestry, revealing the threads of her experiences from a graduate teacher, through a variety of middle leader roles, to her current role as Deputy Principal of Pastoral Care. Our conversation spans the landmarks of her career, including her strategic pivot to communications and her choice to pause for family, highlighting the resilience and evolution necessary for educational leaders. This is an inspiring episode from a dedicated educator.
The journey of re-entering the workforce is familiar to women in education know all too well, and Antonietta shares anecdotes and speaks of the vital role of mentorship. She talks of th importance of relationship building, and growth plans in nurturing staff potential. She demonstrates how leaders can foster environments that allow staff to flourish through shared trust and decision-making.
Finally, Ant shares her implementation of a student wellbeing framework. She shares the journey of creating a pastoral care strategy that nurtures student emotional health across all schooling years. The upcoming framework launch, the collaborative mapping of initiatives, and the prospect of extending these principles to staff wellbeing form the closing chapter of our discussion, anchored by the conviction that evidence-based practices are fundamental to fostering a holistic community approach to wellbeing.

Did you know there is more? You can access every episode, show notes, links and more via my website Positively Beaming.

Chapters

1. Leadership Journey in Education (00:00:00)

2. Empowering Growth and Leadership Development (00:12:53)

3. Building Strong Teams Through Effective Communication (00:17:58)

4. Intentional Well-Being Framework Implementation (00:25:31)