Muriel Summers - How to Build on Every Student’s Unique Gifts and Strengths

It might be an understatement to call today’s guest for the latest episode of Change Starts Here’s You First Summer Series impactful. In fact, host Dustin Odham said, a meeting a full decade ago produced notes that he still has and refers to. That’s some powerful longevity. The guest-in-question was none other than Muriel Summers, recently retired principal of the award-winning A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School. It’s no wonder her words left an impact on Odham, as they’ve also done just that on the like of Dr. Stephen Covey and Oprah Winfrey, who invited Summers to make an appearance on her show. Over nearly four decades in education, Summers crafted and honed an educational model used by more than 3,000 schools around the world during time spent as a classroom teacher, demonstration teacher, instructional resource teacher, assistant principal and principal. A.B. Combs was the first leadership elementary school in the nation, and it boasts students from a whopping 64 countries. The most important cornerstone of that global model and of A.B. Combs’ success is a simple one. Summers and her colleagues focused on students’ unique gifts, talents and strengths, not their weaknesses, building on each individual foundation to help them forge their own path toward becoming high-achieving and well-rounded members of society. For more insights from Summers, who said she truly enjoyed and loved every single day of her career, watch the full episode now.

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