Dr. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the ArtsCreativity, Inc.

• A work or a text to land on so that it wasn’t personal.
• Lots of work to come up with core values of Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Grading policies, attendance policies.
• Changes need to be based on evidence.
• Core values help us say no.
• Radical candor.
• Challenges in creating core values.
• Comfort in being comfortable.
• Disrupted status quo.
• Conversations that require a keen intellect to navigate.
• Awoke in our faculty a feeling of learning.
• Why Tuacahn? It’s through the uncertainty that you can drive to the question of why.
• Dropping a class because it doesn’t align to our core values.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Never stop learning. Go out of your box and seek learning.

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