Transformative Principal Education is the antidote with Ted Dintersmith Transformative Principal 284
After a career in innovation, Ted Dintersmith is most well-known to educators as the executive producer of the movie, Most Likely to Succeed, coauthor of the book of the same, and the man who traveled all fifty states to see What Schools Could Be.
- Education is the only antidote
- Machines are taking over so many jobs.
- Social media fueled technology is making it challenging to know what is real.
- What they could do vs. what they do.
- the people who get to the top of these bureaucratic systems are bureaucrats
- If we just focused on setting up the conditions for educators to do their best work.
- It’s time for us to be more like activists.
- What are you working on and why?
- The purpose of school is to rank kids.
- Why isn’t that the way we do it?
- New Hampshire portfolio assessment system.
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