Strategies to Motivate Your Unmotivated Students

Jamilah Hud-Kirk, also known as Principal Captain Kirk, has served as an educator for over 23 years and currently serves as an elementary principal in one of the largest urban school districts in Metro Atlanta for the past 12 years. As a school leader, she has focused on creating a culture of high performance and impacting teachers instructional practices that are innovative, culturally relevant and aligned with student achievement best practices. Growing up in a household where her parents were active in the civil rights movement and where the importance of building strong communities in which we live were stressed, she continues to strive to create conditions inside and outside of the school that impact change and opportunity for our children. Jamilah believes passionately that education can positively affect communities, transform lives, and shape new visions for leading and learning in a globally competitive world. Grounded in her earliest years as a classroom teacher and growing up in a home where the importance life-long learning were stressed, Jamilah also believes these early beginnings have shaped her ability to harvest a sense of pride and empowerment as she strives to create stronger communities while educating those who will one day lead them. As CEO and Founder of PCK Consulting LLC, an educational leadership consulting group which was created to serve women of diverse backgrounds who aspire to serve and are currently serving in school leadership roles, she is committed to helping these leaders elevate their leadership “goals,” and increase their impact in schools. Realizing that there is much to learn from her own experiences and those of other dynamic female leaders who have come across her path, she created a blog and other social media platforms that are reflective of those golden nuggets. It is the desire and hope that other leaders who share a similar desire to create work/life balance will have a safe, honest platform in which to learn from and express their own personal journeys on how they manage to find harmony between their professional and personal lives. Jamilah incorporates and infuses a passion for authentic leadership by empowering others to create balance that is critical to good leadership and essential for a healthy organization. In addition to becoming an Amazon Best Selling Co-Author for “Leading With Balance, Jamilah considers her greatest accomplishment to be a wife of 20 years to husband, Toussaint and mother to 4 wonderful boys and 1 girl, ranging from 25 to 3 years of age. She is a graduate of the prestigious Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama, where she received two bachelor degrees in Early childhood and Elementary Education. She is also proud of her achievements in acquiring a Masters degree in Specific Learning Disabilities from Auburn University and Educational Leadership from University of Texas at Austin.