Presentations, Publications, and Training

Presentations and Speaking

• TASSP Summer Workshop Grand Opening General Session Kickoff and Keynote Speaker Introduction, June 2024

• What Great Coaches Do Differently - Guest Speaker for NISD Coaches Convocation, Summer 2023

• Texans at Work: Building Culture and Climate While Constructing a Building! - Texan Admin Team, TASSP Summer Workshop Concurrent Session, June 2023

• Shut Down the Shopping Mall  (...and Focus on Learning) - Texan Admin Team, TASSP Summer Workshop Concurrent Session, June 2022

• Don't Walk Alone: Run Together!  - NISD High School Principals, TASSP Summer Workshop Concurrent Session, June 2022

• Unleash Your SuperPowers - Closing Keynote at NASSP National Principals Conference, Chicago - July 2018

• Five MORE Things We Can Do Now to Make Our Schools Awesome, TASSP spring region meetings, President's Address, 2018

• ​Five Things We Can Do Now to Make Our Schools Awesome for Kids, TASSP fall region meetings, President's Address, 2017

• ​The Future is Now, incoming state president's address to closing general session at TASSP Summer Workshop, 2017

• ​Making Middle School Awesome for Kids, concurrent session at TASSP Summer Workshop 2017

• ​#EdTalks Live: Who are YOU? - Invited speaker at TASSP Summer Workshop 2016 

• ​Transformation Through Connection: How building a culture of trust saved a learning community, NASSP Breaking Ranks School Showcase 2016

•  Life Hacks for School Leaders, Featured Presenter at TASSP Assistant Principals Workshop (APW) 2016

• ​Community Learning: It's Not Inservice Anymore! - TASSP Summer Workshop 2015

•  Next Steps in Digital Leadership, Invited speaker at NASSP Ignite 2015

•  Connecting with Kids and Community through Instagram, Invited speaker at NASSP Ignite 2014

• ​Stylish New Tools for Schools, Invited speaker at NASSP Ignite 2014, Distinguished speaker at TASSP Summer Workshop 2014

•  School-Community Connections through Social Media, Keynote Address Oklahoma Association of Secondary School Principals, 2013

• ​School-Community Connections through Social Media , Keynote Address Louisiana Association of Principals, 2013

• ​Social Media for the Learning Leader, TASSP Assistant Principals' Workshop, 2013

• ​Getting to the Heart of Communication, TASSP Summer Workshop 2012

• Twitter: Your Free Personal Learning Network, TASSP Summer Workshop 2012

• Twitter for Learning and Communication, Timberview Digital Summit, November 2012

My Publications

• "21st Century School Communication: Vlogging and Virtual Faculty Meetings," guest post in NASSP's Principal Difference blog, January 2018

• ​"Make the Most of Your Opportunity to Connect," guest post in NASSP's School of Thought blog, January 2014

• ​"Cool Tools for Back to School," Principal Leadership, August 2013

•  "Family and Community Engagement Through Social Media," Texas Study of Secondary Education, Fall 2012

• ​"School Leaders: Four Reasons to Join Twitter," NASSP NewsLeader, April 2012

Features Written About My Work

• "President Profile: TASSP President Carrie Jackson encourages principals to be 'all over the building'," by Laura Cherry, Texas School Business, March/April 2018

• ​"In the Spotlight: How one principal turned a wave of backlash into an engaged community," by Elizabeth Millard, Texas School Business, October 2013 

• ​"2013 Digital Principals," Cover photo and feature article in Principal Leadership, October 2013

Podcast and Program Guest Appearances

• Sports Life Talk , "You Got Next Series"  - Fall 2023

• NASSP Live Look-in, "Students Lead the Way in Community-wide Broadcasting" - February 2020

• Edu All-Stars Episode 92, with Todd Nesloney - 2016

• How a School is Using its Own Twitter Chat to Build Community and Tell its Story - BAM Radio, Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis

• Creating a Warm and Friendly School Environment - BAM Radio, Gwen Pescatore and Lisa Davis

Specialized Training Highlights

• Restorative/Relational Practices

• Emergent Tree Schoolwide Behavior Support

• AVID Instructional Strategies and Leadership Training

• Freshman Success Institute, University of Chicago

• Kagan Instructional Strategies

• Project and Problem-based Learning Strategies - Various Models

• The Breakthrough Coach - Leadership Time Management Training

• Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability

• Coaching for Success

• Principal Leadership Institute - 2020-21 Cohort

• TTESS/TPESS

• Covey 7 Habits