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The Cost of Being Nice: How avoiding conflict ruins trust
This one’s about me, folks! Joe and I dissect a story from long ago in which I caved to my conflict aversion — and then doubled back to engage with the conflict. Because it felt just too awful to continue to avoid it! In addition to sharing the surprising outcome of my conflict engagement,
We discuss:
- Self-Erasure: Why avoidance leads to disappearing in your own classroom and how to reclaim your presence.
- Power Grabs: Identifying the subtle (and not-so-subtle) power grabs.
- Repairing: Moving past apologies to repair, the secret sauce for long-term classroom success.
- Parallels: How the…
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