Transformative Principal

Andrea Keith is the Vice President of School Programs at Let Grow. Let Grow non profit to bring back childhood independence. What changes have happened in the how parenting happens? Belief that it is the parents’ job to protect kids from any discomfort. Blue hands in the windows. Benefits of kids having independence. Nobody intends to give their kids the message that they’re not capable. How has the pandemic influenced independence? Re-education of adults. I wasn’t taught social-emotional learning when I was a child. Give your kids independence. Let Grow Project Let Grow Play Club How to be a transformative principal? Start the project once a week after school with your kids. Today’s Sponsors TeachFX Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.c

Barb Labotka is a principal of a Montessori School in Chicago, Illinois. And this podcast is a little different in that she is going to tell some stories about Maria Montessori! integrated her faith into her theory. Montessori was the first scientific method. Inspiration will come in moments when you least expect them. At 36, she said that her educational approach will fill the whole world. Match activities to abilities Kids enjoy the things we typically think they hate in education. Brains are designed to keep our bodies alive. If kids are not given freedom, it is harder for them to learn. Today’s Sponsors TeachFX Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com John Catt Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies

Nancy Conrad is the founder of the Conrad Challenge, a global competition to help kids learn without limitations. Global competition for teams of students 13–18. Students are invited to combine innovation, education, and entrepreneurship to create something new. Students form teams and ind a coach. Summit hosted at Kennedy Space Center. As students are looking for unique opportunities for competition - kids can work across all possible barriers. We’ve been doing online education for 15 years. How to work on a team? Pushing education vs pulling education We believe in “pull” education Obstatunity They get engaged in their learning. Each of them has achieved extraordinary things. We gave kids the passion for learning. four years to get to the finals and they finally won. Always wanted it to be a community. It becomes family. Kids get talked at quite enough. Cosmic chat. Battelle - story about networking. It’s not snooty and it’s not about money. We facilitate collaboration. Any company is a conglomeration of

Amy Valentine, Leader at Future of School has been called a social rabble rouser, a turnaround strategist and a fighter of the status quo in K–12 education. She has served as a teacher, school leader and executive director.  Gives scholarships to students and grants to teachers. National Non-profit to support the changing of schools. Why parents seek alternative methods of education. Why wasn’t emergency learning effective in spring 2020? We haven’t reached a tipping point. COVID 19 taught us that school is verb. How to demonstrate learning differently? It doesn’t take a lot of money. Fixed mindsets can be damaging. Education is a personal thing for everyone. Whatever it takes, all hands on deck. Seeing education from a different perspective. Role of teacher was elevated during pandemic. buzzword - student-centered learning. Crisis schooling - is not remote learning. You need to listen to that voice inside you. You’ve got all this education figured out. How to be a transformative principal? Bring your commun

JC Pohl is the co-founder and CEO of TeenTruth.net Resilience is about taking the hits and moving forward. Hear about bad things with kids. Bouncing back. It was really in the hard times in our life that we grew. 5 keys to mental health. Why is it harder for teenagers? This is developmentally appropriate. To them it really does feel like it is the end of the world. Charismatic Adults - A developmental structure to support them. They need a touchpoint when they need it. All adults around out children have the ability to speak into their lives. Dr. Robert Brooks - charismatic adult is the single most important influence. Anybody can do this. Some people aren’t invited. Connect with students where they are. Kids form common bonds. Get free chapters: teentruth.net/resilientstudents Discount code relationships to get a discount on the book. How to be a transformative principal? Be vulnerable about a challenge you’re dealing with.     Today’s Sponsors Innovative school leaders across the country have started tra

Mariana Aguilar did some field research to determine what causes students to be engaged in online and hybrid learning environments. How to define student engagement in online and hybrid environments. Hard to define engagement, but we all say we can feel it! You can feel it. Emotionally connected Manifests differently in hybrid environment Hard to read people’s language. How to turn on engagement for students, especially in an online space? You can use similar tactics that you. May do in in person learning as you do in virtual learning. Relationships! Teacher and principal relationships with families! Having a successful relationship requires connection between students, teachers and families. Instructional practices: smaller groups. Checks for understanding. Technology doesn’t have to be complex. Giving kids opportunities to engage in community based learning. Lead and health outcomes Students want to feel like they are having an impact on the world. How to be a transformative principal? Look for opportuni

Danielle Nuhfer is a teacher and you can find more information about her at TeachingWell.Life Bringing Awareness to the present moment without judgment. Taking a step back and trying to think about how to proceed. The benefits of mindfulness in self-care and resilient person in our students’ lives. How to be mindful in talking about the coronavirus situation. Take a breath, think, and respond. Mindfulness allows us to see that everyone has their own story. Would you rather be right or happy? Take time for yourself to just breathe! Create moments where you do those checkins. It’s not about more, it is about changing how you do what you’re already doing. How to prepare for each day. Some kind of morning routine - quiet time. It can be more than five minutes, or it can be much shorter. How to be a transformative principal? Try to do something in regard to mindfulness. Today’s Sponsors Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one

Crystal Xu and Purvi Patel recently wrote a paper on how to Redesign School Level Systems For Equity. How systems work together. Started with redesign systems work. We actually have a lot more autonomy than we think. Expand our self-confidence around the structures we can control. How we define engagement in school. How do we deal with criticism that we face when we try to implement equitable practices. It comes with the self work. Power Struggle within a classroom. You’re good about making a decision when you know it is true to who you are. Privilege is not about good or bad. Fellowship learning experiences. How do we create more opportunities for Fellowship learning experiences. Making sure people have opportunities that didn’t usually have it before. Ceding power vs. Distributed leadership - Giving more ownership to others. All of those decisions can come with biases and other barriers. How to support people who may have an idea of what they want, but they don’t really have ideas of what they need. How do

James Anderson is a educator, author, and speaker and a master of mindset work. Today we are talking about Learner Agency. Anders Ericson - purposeful practice. Agile Learner - capable of growth, but also knows how to go about achieving the growth. What it means to achieve the growth in life. Growth mindset is how much you see yourself as a learner. How do I get really good at achieving that growth. What it looks like to be a good learner. Five areas: challenge, habits of mind, mistakes, feedback, time and energy. We don’t talk a lot about being a skillful learner. Seeks to find out what students can do rather than defining their abilities. Performance learners avoid going to their best level. Stay in performance zone, but don’t go beyond their best. Challenges will come and go, but behaviors stay with them. Agile learner is proactive. What does it mean to be fragile. Anti-Fragile means drop me, it helps. VUCA World Post traumatic growth Black Swan Events - you cannot predict the future, but you can prepa

Tiersa McQueen is an unschooling mom and has a great story to tell. Follow her insightful comments on Twitter. You can learn a lot of math through cooking. What about math? Math is everywhere. Homeschooling vs unschooling vs public school Many different styles. You can relax a little bit with homeschooling. Ask your child what they want to learn. More of a family interaction. When you have choices, it totally changes the experiences. How do you know they’re progressing? Black holes - 4th dimension We live in a digital age with lots of social media. It’s never been easier to find your tribe. Our educational approach is really about having experiences. You have to get out of the mindset of being just your age group. How are you adapting with everything being closed? Libraries, etc? advice for a mind shift from being in school to home schooling? Three biggest mind shifts needed. We don’t have a schedule of everything that needs to happen every single day. Children do need structure. It comes from the family, no

Cory Henwood is the Innovation Coordinator for Iron County Schools, founder of Launch HS. What Launch HS is? How students demonstrate mastery. There are systemic barriers that prevent people from taking this leap. Lots of groundwork laid for this. Partnerships are really important. How is your partnership with SUU designed? How Launch HS got started. What skills do kids need to be successful? Start with 8 innovative skills for students to learn. State grants that support innovative approaches. One way to meet students where they’re at is to do competency based education. Design challenges that integrate curricular content and highlight entrepreneurial skills. Work with local businesses. 50% or more of time is dedicated to design challenges. Authentic Work How to be a transformative principal? use design thinking to help people know how to make decisions. We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual co

Marti Sievek is Assistant Principal of East High School. Tania Lyon is the talent Talent Development Coordinator. Both are in Mankato Area Public Schools Mankato Area Public Schools. District from a GT program to a more inclusive program. Professional development coordinator interim director of teaching and learning. Helping students have access to high quality instruction with no ceiling. Increase complexity of work that is being done Selecting resources that will help kids. Different and complex instead of more Start with what those needs are for your community. Start with Why, come back to How. The How can’t just be adding more to the teacher’s plate. Teachers needed a deep understanding of their academic standards. Taking away things from teachers - take away the idea of being a sage on the stage. What becomes electrifying for kids is the ability to collaborate with their peers. Beast Academy and Mentor Networks Gifted and talented is push-in instead of pull out. NWEA scores improved Able to connect with

Click the title or long-press the album art to get to the book. or go to http://schoolx.me We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

Derek Sivers is an entrepreneur who founded CDBaby, and is now writing and doing cool things in New Zealand. Check out his Now page for more information. This episode is about the importance of focus and how to not be distracted all the time. Moved to Oxford for the schools. He grew up outside and that really shaped him. want him to be really focused on whatever he is interested in. If you’re focused, you can do anything. Now he continues to do it. He’s thriving more than ever without school. anki flashcard software So distracted when doing something for school. Mastery path to anything is great. In wanting to be great at it, it caused me to focus. To be driven is the best thing we can help someone to be. No connection from school to my interests. applicable If you don’t have a problem to solve. How to be transformative principal. Listen. Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fres

Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students and the trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. Visit Karen’s website at www.karengrosseducation.com. Name it - start by recognizing that it exists. What is traumatic for one may not be traumatic for another. Tame it - Strategies to deal with those. Invisible and it never goes away. Fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn. activities that activate the senses allows the brain to reset. Example of strategies - stand on one leg. All of the senses have activities that are tied to them. Frame it Gotta do something to activate th

Dr. Bryan Brockett is a principal of the Lancers in Carlsbad, CA. Principal experience in middle and high school. Are high school kids completely indifferent or focused or somewhere in between? You see transformation take place. Expecting conversation The more we treat students like they’re equally human like us, the more they’re going to join us. Campus supervisors really know the kids. A comprehensive high school should feel like an exciting place for learning. Model the approach, be explicit, look for opportunities. Honor the feedback of your students. Instead of a dress code, we established a dress culture. The more we cultivate that environment, the more we share it back with students. Soliciting input from students and teachers. Starting around what your vision is for your school! Some schools were well positioned to do that, others, not so much. Building a positive and supportive environment. Honor the work our teachers do to live out our vision. Instructional rounds formula - never found an effective

Tamara Fyke is the founder of Love in a Big World, which provides SEL support for families all over the world. SEL is related to their emotional, mental, and physical health. Kids may have experienced more trauma at home during closures than they ever have. Maslow before Blooms. The need that kids have is for connect. The pace of learning is different at home. We have to acknowledge what is most important. The system we’ve been using isn’t actually working. The learning council it’s time to let go of control Being a compass instead of a sage Self-awareness is knowing our strengths and weaknesses. What’s it like to have a deliverable that’s due at a certain time? How to be a transformative principal? Take a cue from youth culture - tiktok, instagram, YouTube, twitch, etc. What do we need to change to show that kids aren’t really lazy! Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh pe

Miguel Gonzalez is the founder of Embark education, a micro school embedded in two small businesses (pinwheel coffee and framework cycles) Brian Sense is the Executive Director Great Work, Inc Samara is a student at the Embark school. Microschools vs. traditional schools Blended grade levels. 16 students enrolled with 7th and 8th grade. Embark education is an independent school, which allows us to work with kids tuition free! Founding businesses and profit from businesses would fund the educational experience. Grants and fundraising. Kids can make business decisions that may not be in the best interest of the businesses. Price changes involved in the coffee shop. How do we pose it to our students, Samara’s interest in the espresso machine. Coffee machine does produce 85% of our drinks. Learning is a strong point for me. We don’t just focus on educational needs, but also on social emotional needs. What school is like? What structures do we want to have? Miguel’s job is supporting embark and the teachers. Maki

Lyn is a valued member of the mastermind. Tune in to hear her experiences for the last two years as a member.  Join today at jethrojones.com/mastermind We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

Dr. Kulvarn Atwal has been a head teacher for 8 years, educator for 20. He is the Author of The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community Great variation in teachers who had good attitudes and wanted to improve. Interested in finding out how to help every teacher be excited to learn. Focusing our energies on teacher professional learning. The way you impact learning is by hiring amazing teachers. Implementing dynamic learning communities. Maximizing informal learning. What is informal learning. More learning takes place socially in an institution than formally. Every person is trained as a coach. Average teacher stops improving after their third year of teaching. Communities of Practice Getting better has to be part of the culture of the school. Expansive professional learning I’m not going to participate in any judgment or lesson observations. Engage in collaborative action research projects. Done this in three different schools. If their traditional role was to judge and now they need to coa