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20 years at the same school and still learning!

Meet an amazing Ruckus Maker, Chuck Warfield. Husband, dad, principal, and raving Phillies fan! Like seriously raving …

On his FB feed I see the days counting down for spring training, and now that baseball is here, Chuck is counting the days until a Phillies World Series!

When I met Chuck he was looking for a space that would offer candid, honest feedback. 

You see, Chuck has been faithfully serving in the same community for years. That is wonderful. Certainly a testament to his commitment to his district. 

But anyone who has stuck around any organization for years will tell you getting an outside perspective is really hard to do …

Not impossible though!

It’s just very difficult (as you probably know too).

The level of trust and open-mindedness required to take a real critical look at “the way we do things here” often means bringing in costly consultants.

Some of whom have NEVER spent a day in a classroom (let alone the principal’s chair). And then one day Chuck’s phone rang. 

So Chuck told his wife about the mastermind and he would like to give it a shot and “see what happens …”

Here’s what happened … Chuck found that his mastermind colleagues were candid both sharing personal challenges and professional challenges. He also found that his peers were willing to help him and really get to know him.

Chuck’s first BIG win was welcoming students back to school.

But it wasn’t all puppies and rainbows for Chuck. There have been challenges to participating in the mastermind. He’s been exhausted. 

And when the days started to get darker, earlier, it became harder to run outside with daylight (something important to Chuck).

But instead of quitting the mastermind, he decided to modify his schedule to incorporate daylight runs and still make the mastermind meetings.

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