Transformative Principal

Thank so much for taking the survey for listeners. Here is the link.   Be sure to check out Danny Bauer's School Leadership Series. LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

  Eric Chagala is the principal of of Vista Innovation & Design Academy Twitter Changing with the same kids same teachers same place. Using the design thinking process to actually get there. There is no difference in design thinking between business and schools. Trying to create and add value for and in the community. Identifying who our users are and what their How do you get deep insights? Steve Jobs idea, they never would have come up with that idea. Listen deeply, and read between the lines of what people are asking for. What is it that they have not imagines. About 1000 educational visitors come through our school each year. Want to do better by and for kids. Looking for exposure. Trying to gain understand about what might exist in different capacities. What they understand from the perspective that they have. Important for the designers to have a really vast set of exposures. It’s not just visiting schools. Stopped reading about education stuff. Starting reading and focusing on things from industry. Subscribing to more things outside the context of education. discussion, reading, and some travel to other places. Quallcomm, Mindsets of founding leadership team. Translate what we were hearing from students and teachers. Looking at creative firms that touch the education sector. Diversity of the ecosystem. The more diverse an ecosystem the better Feb 2013 - spring smiling at each other, year long journey of trying to figure out what a new school would be. August 2014, after just 1 year. Taught all day at the old school afternoon and evening were spent learning and gaining empathy. Be centered around design thinking. Doesn’t translate very well into pedagogy. Pedagogical framework, buck institute on Project-based learning. That gave us a framework to insert design thinking into. PBL is more challenging in Math than humanities, so moved to Problem-based learning. Challenge-based learning. Design-based learning. Deeper learning & project based & challenge-based DBLe - including entrepreneurship to get them ready for the gig economy. The narrative we share about the experience that kids get when they come here. VIDA - Life - Narrative of life vs. school. It’s not design thinking or PBL, what sets us apart is our narrative. This is not school. You can’t just show up for 7.5 hours and think you’ll change your life. First year - students who were matriculating through. Found some of the kids who had struggled the most in the old school and were stars in the new school. Tell their story on video. Turnaround kids. Schools have the power to perpetuate or change the culture of the neighborhood. “Now our teachers care about us” Pursue challenging tasks with Love the hell out of every single person, every day. Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey     LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Whaley School is a separate day school with about 100 students with behavioral needs. Some students stay through graduation, but goal is to get them back to a neighborhood school. Sister school closed down and opened an elementary wing, so now a k12 school! 100% special education population - level 4, level 5 is more like a residential treatment center. Tier 3 in MTSS/RTI behavior. Students can access neighborhood schools. No after-school activities at Whaley. Sometimes a parent goes with them to activities at other schools. Why not inclusion at Whaley school? Some of the behavioral needs are so intense that staff members do not have the support to deal with those severe behaviors. Our motto is working through the problem. Physical aggression they are showing towards others. Strategies: Crisis Recovery Hallway - able to talk with intervention coaches to walk them through the conflict cycle, with whomever that may be! What are you going to do when you go back? Teaching kids to advocate for themselves. We really believe in no suspensions We give the same curriculum that they get at the other schools, All of their communication becomes behavior. An intervention coach in each classroom and there in the CR room. Intervention with Strategies and Support To prevent recidivism, we need to teach skills to help them. CR1 - something blows up and you lose your cool. Quickly getting back to class. CR2 - spend a little more time talking about what is going on. Choose: mindfulness, exercise, or work. CR3 - stay there the rest of the day. How to help the teachers welcome kids back into class. Every 5 minutes is a new beginning. It’s ok to start fresh at the beginning of the next class. Also have a few items that are specifically going to put them in the ISS room, Threatening, posturing, etc. Eliminating behaviors A lot of times teachers may see reactions, rather than instigating actions. Suggestions, be very loud and say, “I don’t like that, don’t do that.“ Check in and check out. 1st period talking about goals that they have. When they go to checkout, tell how they did. Doing so many checkpoints throughout the day. Behavior data every week. Data review meetings can be called at any time to try to get a student back into the regular school. Data review with the team, then we call a meeting with neighborhood school. Meet at the neighborhood school. Sometimes self-sabotage - Extra help for kids that are getting close to transitioning. Make sure kids feel that they have support when they leave. Why not do a different curriculum with these students who are very different? Students could have access to resource classes in all subject areas. How to be a transformative principal? Build close relationships with students, be out there and make sure that kids know you think they are important. LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

  Michelle Snyder@mlsnyder92 Vista Visions academy Students have set lab times so they come in for special events. Students in a lab with 5 or six students Whether or not they are required to do the labs is up for debate, but it is good for kids to have the experience. What kinds of students are attracted to your school? Their reasons vary, but they each have a very specific reason for coming. If they hadn’t found us, they would have gone outside the district to a charter school Big picture learning. Upstream collaborative. Learning through interests (LTI) student internship program Teaching skills for seeking out their own internship. Parents often speaking for their kids and how do we help parents. Takes a lot for parents to be able to step back when they How to build for scale for this program. Looking at things from a dollars and cents point of view. We’re not the same system as a regular school, so we need to look at what’s actually happening to see what we need to do to help them. Every Friday afternoon we have collaboration and PD. Individual Student Support Spreadsheet to record notes of students. Touchstone - morning meeting with staff to see how everyone is doing. Always looking at other options for kids. How to be a transformative principal? Ask questions of their staff and listen to their answers. Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey   LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

  Kelly Tenkely founded Anastasis Academy in 2011. We visited this school in September 2018, and we want to make Anastasis is a kindergarten through 8th grade innovative, non-denominational Christian school located in Centennial Colorado. Our Reggio-Emilia, inquiry-based approach challenges students to gain a deep understanding of concepts and skills. Experiential learning allows our students to explore the world through research and play. Students collaborate in small, mixed age classes with teachers who support learning. It's no wonder that our student love coming to school every day! Metanoia - greek the journey of one’s mind, body and spirit. The way we interact is a journey. Tie the morning time in with what is happening in our inquiry block. Community time. Mile walk together - all students and teachers all together. Disregulated kids get regulated by walking together. 3:10 time: we meet all together in the lobby. Daniel Pink’s book, When. The last thing that happens is the thing that stands out. Sometimes it is a dance party. Parent feedback about what these two things do. We have parents ask, “Who did you notice being kind today?” It’s not just about academics, but about caring at a human level. Kids feel judged when their parents ask about school because they think their parents ask about areas they are weak, so we coach parents to ask about social What did you do creatively today? The way we are shifting education is very different from what parents experienced in school, so we need to help parents see how the landscape has changed. Our parents are a little more open to that because they are choosing this education. My kids’ friends are memorizing 50 states. Table topics at back to school night. Getting to know people on a personal level. Cultivating community between parents and teachers. Meeting of the minds - parent teacher conferences. Sending postcards to parents as just in time information. Pull information from handbook and put it on the postcards. Making our handbook fun to read. Most challenging is hearing parents say, “Why can’t you just call it X?” People who aren’t in the space every day, don’t understand everything about why you need to call it something else. How to change perception of what we are based on people’s experiences. Start comparing yourself to what you want to look like. “We are a magnet school if a magnet school was run by Pixar!” Connect to something they are familiar with and connect with that. Assessment - means to sit beside. We apprentice students in the art of learning. Traditional assessment is a teacher making a determination of a grade. It’s never about a student understanding and reflecting on their own work. Different things focused on social skills became part of upgrade (their report card). Continuum of learning - Novice -> Apprentice -> Practitioner -> Scholar -> Changemaker So many more skills than just doing math facts in under a minute. 5sigma conference - See the kids’ activities first hand, then do breakout sessions. How to be a transformative principal? Get into the classroom and get to know students on a personal level. Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey   LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

  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? Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey     LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

  Scott Ellis is the founder and CEO of Mastery Track, which is a software program to help teachers use mastery-based grading in their schools. Applied analytics at Hewlett Packard. Teacher mentoring programs. Blended and personalized learning for the last 7 or 8 years. What contribution could I make? Look at scale and what that might look like? How to use technology as the core process that everyone can access and use for learning. Making lots of progress on certain areas, but still having good access to the data is one area we are still struggling. Anything more than individual student data is too much data. Data wave is crashing across education. We need to be crystal clear about what data we need? What does the student know? So what might we do next? Which ways of learning work best for them? Blended learning is combining great teaching with technology. There is a new job description for teachers in the 21st Century. It used to be that the teacher was the source of information, and now there are lots of ways for students to learn. There are so many more tools in the teacher’s toolkit. We all know they know different things and are in different places. It’s extremely difficult to do differentiation in that system. Teachers know things that nobody else knows. They know the children in front of them. The role of those teachers is to know how to use the variety of tools at their disposal to help kids learn as much as possible. The children are at different places in their learning. New tech makes things possible in new ways. Station rotation models. Individuals and small groups is where the magic happens. Effective educational practices that are happening when the teacher is not imparting instruction. Start with a dashboard: Where are they now? Second step: What are the next steps? Third Step: What is our action plan? Run a two-week cycle, where kids are learning certain things. How to be a transformative principal? Enable students to move at their own pace: learn about what that means, and genuinely embrace it, or start asking the questions to make that happen. Schedule a call with Jethro Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Take Control of your email Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey     LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Alexis Gonzales-Black, principal designer at IDEO, discusses holacracy and self-organization. They explore the challenges of shifting to holacracy, the importance of self-advocacy skills, and managing ourselves in an interactive way. They also talk about the role marketplace and the growing desire for autonomy, mastery, and purpose in the workforce. Lastly, they discuss transformative leadership tips for principals, such as offering one piece of their work to someone eager for more responsibilities.

The New School Rules with Anthony Kim Transformative Principal 244 Social Media: We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure. Anthony Kim is the founder and CEO of Education Elements, a consulting company that helps districts meet the needs of their students. He is also the coauthor of “The New School Rules: 6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools“ Focusing learning for adults on what your school specifically needs. Where the experiments came from. We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure. From “failing forward” to “safe enough to try”. It’s obvious when you see that things didn’t. Doing things how we have been doing them really facilitates First milestone - classes in school buildings, then factory model. Comparing currency to education. Starting private schools What you know, what you anticipate. If you’re bringing it up Meeting Agenda - Could be chaotic. Jethro’s Blog Post about WeWork’s ]http://www.jethrojones.com/blog/2018/5/17/an-elementary-school-just-acquired-a-startup Articulate what game you’re playing rather than arguing over it. People often don’t know how to construct the problem of practice. Brainstorming vs. decision making. People aren’t trained to work in ambiguous environments. leaders live in ambiguity. Teachers live in How to be a transformative principal? Internal monthly experiments in our company, nothing to do with our work, but trying to understand people’s habits. Meditation example. Finding something that will get people to take action.   LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Design39Campus Brief School Profile:  At Design39Campus, learning experiences are designed with the individual learner in mind. As a collaborative community, we nurture creative confidence, practice design thinking, learn through inquiry, connect globally, use technology and real world tools, and promote the courage and growth mindset necessary to change the world. Teachers are called “Learning Experience Designers"   Location: 17050 Del Sur Ridge Road San Diego, CA 92127 (858) 676-6639   Why are we visiting this school?   Alignment with our vision for K12 Magnet [x]Competency Based [x]Blended Learning [x]Diversity [x]Public School   Resources and Links: School Blog School Web Site   Contact: Joe Erpelding jerpelding@powayusd.com 858-382-4356   Notes from Visit: Everything speaks titles, furniture, etc. Open spaces, very flexible   Choices in topic, process, product Director of innovation Teachers collaborating every single day. Team (principal and 5 teachers) working together to design the school for a whole year. TK - kindergarten for kids that are 5 before december 1 (½ day) MIMS - PE teachers. When and why were they brought in? Collaboration Everyone is a leader. Teachers are out of the room easily. No more meetings - facilitated learning opportunities. Carts for teachers, instead No ownership of rooms. Design the space as needed. Reset the space at the end of each day/week/unit. Students didn’t have any physical books, were put in the classroom. Working agreements for student behavior not school rules. Large classrooms, 60-65 kids, 2 teachers. Kids without passes, not asking to use the bathroom. Every piece of furniture has dual purposes. Name design39 39th school and want kids to wonder first and foremost. Design Studio for the adults. Learning Experience Designers - We light the way. Be cognizant of what works well for kids. Do it. Activity for K12 sessions: Define what different things mean. Questions still to ask: Community agreements? Video about 1st graders collaborating. Clubs or activities Philosophy on homework? Literacy emphasis? Lottery process: 1st draw is to match free and reduced lunch. 2nd draw is to fill Special Education demographics. 3rd draw is for diversity. Fourth draw is to do everything. LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.comWe’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.