Transformative Principal Ready to Blend with Heather Staker Transformative Principal 211
Heather Staker is a former Mckenzie Consultant and coauthor of the book Blended Learning: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.
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- Questioning our own assumptions is a huge piece of opening up what learning can look like.
- Every child has their genius.
- There is value in finding the right path for each child.
- Some teachers can be great at different things.
- Allow teachers to specialize and micro credential.
- How to match kids up with the right kinds of teachers that really help them.
- Coming at the content in a variety of ways.
- Sustaining innovations allow us to serve our customer even better.
- Disruptive innovation completely changes the paradigm.
- Online learning - adults are not unlike children.
- When we are more engaged and active learners we are able to learn much better.
- Blended Learning Live seminars - not traditional sit and get instruction.
- Helps people learn in a different way.
- How to be a transformative Principal? Walk your building and note any instances that technology is replacing them, and then make sure you change the message.
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