Joe Erpelding, principal of Design39Campus:

Promotion Designer class - students are creating promotion experience
2 promoting classes in last two years
the trouble with leadership in traditional models.
Anyone who is interested in leadership gets to be part of Lead39.
Students create leadership
Experienceships energize
Life-ready
How do we cram it all in?
Covering the content vs experiencing the content.
Enduring Learning through creativity, knowledge, identity.
Design thinking process is an extension of the scientific method.
Empathy.
Was the learning really “felt”?
What does great teaching look like?
What does great learning look like?
MOUs to reshape the strict rules and regulations.
Extensive Hiring Process: disorienting for anyone coming here.
4 step process - 1. e-tell 2. Design challenge with student 3. Typical interview 4. Performance task
Onboarding process - historical documents of where we hoped to be.
Balance between quicksand and concrete - how do you balance this?
Steve Farver: Radical LEAP
Competency-based learning - TK-8 - what is critical?
Critical components that need to be covered before kids are ready for the next step.
1st graders collaborating
Sense of self leads you to be able to communicate effectively.
Learner centered lab school - can’t disconnect parents from the learning community.
FutureNOW conference - parents are invited to be learners.
How many tours are we giving to our current parents?
TK-8 Experience
Pain points - 100 kids leave
Problem with us - communication around what a student is learning.
What are we going to assess?
Send home a progress report twice yearly.
altschool learning platform.
Seesaw
students can showcase their progress against competencies.
What’s next instead of I’m done.
allowing students to have variety in how they communicate what they learn.
Giving kids access.
Personal connection to mathematics can take a deep dive into mathematics.
Daily morning collaboration 7:45-8:45
Gift that we’ve given is time. We overstructure things.
Still have the same time as their peers at other schools
How to be a transformative principal? 10% - what am I willing to stretch myself to do tomorrow? What do I want to see this time next year?

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