Robyn Bagley is a former principal of Career Path High. She is now consulting now and working with Heather Staker on a project for Acton Academy. She is also chair of Parents for Choice in Education, located in Utah. You can email her here

• The power of Networking with so many other people
• Operating at 30,000 feet vs ground floor.
• Policy vs. working in schools
• Giving parents and kids options to have more control over their learning.
• Statewide online learning
• You don’t really understand the challenges until you are in the trenches.
• First opportunity writing a charter.
• How desperate parents are for control and choice in their education.
• So many hoops to jump through.
• There’s a lot of silliness out there that takes away your focus on the kids.
• Issues that exist on the ground floor.
• Administrative and clerical work to satisfy reporting.
• Having the information in the system.
• Kids not required to be there, and balancing what the law required and what was good for kids.
• When you start to run into problems, be vocal to your elected officials.
• You can still give good things to kids even in the system.
• It’s teachers and a principal who is the change agent
• Top-down dictation makes it hard for people to innovate.
• Sharing of ideas in a collaboration is necessary!

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