Transformative Principal

Yes, that Seth Godin! What an amazing opportunity to interview Seth on the podcast. He was so very generous with his time. I asked him questions like the following: How do you teach kids to connect the dots? Failure freezes. How do you make failing safe? Can everyone succeed being independent? How can the little guy compete with someone like Walmart? How do you help teachers not want to be competent anymore? How do you measure the experience? How do you know if has been successful? If we give kids the ability to dream, they’ll figure out the grammar and history the minute it helps them reach their dreams. Also, please be sure to sign up for the Transformative Leadership Summit to learn from some of the greatest minds in education today! How to make a ruckus in a highly bureaucratic, slow moving monstrosity that is education. Has anyone done something that others were delighted by? We’ve all been impacted by teachers who made a difference. It is a mistake to first look at gravity if you are a beginning runner. Brooke Jackson the Lab School NY Show up with a different agenda Already voted If this were easy, everyone would be doing it. Afraid of being called out by our hubris, getting in trouble with the bureaucracy. Going outside the box When we get true enrollment from the students. 10% where we can have non-factory time. What enrollment means. What did the student and parents sign up for? How to learn about Baseball The lesson plan What’s your attitude? Interesting is more important than right. Why memorize nothing? We don’t need people to memorize recipes. Sarah Kay poetry - no right answer for your poetry. Competence is overrated. Write books not read them. What if they don’t learn the grammar that way? That happens to people who don’t have sufficient dreams. Easy to retreat back to the safe place. Seeking reassurance. The only thing I’m trying to sell teachers is to challenge teachers to explore. How do we protect against failure? Why is doing more what we’ve doing any better? People want to do things that matter. People tend to feel cheated. Better to be a musician than an instrument player. It’s possible because we graduate kids who are better off. Stated goals are wrong. All schooling is home schooling. Schools must encourage and amplify the parents. Kids teach their parents about what matters today. Parents think the most important thing they can do is help kids be good at sports. Jim engages with kids, their graduation chance improves by a factor of five! How to be a transformative principal - recognize the heroes! Catch people doing something right How to help kids solve interesting problems in that system.  Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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 Beebe is the founder of My Business on Purpose where he teaches business leaders to be be successful. He also teaches families how to create a family vision mission and value at Create a Family Vision. Standard Core Values - Respect, honesty, integrity, etc. What are your unique core values? Top 10 words that describe you well. Three, four, or five key words. You want people to ask you that question about what your core values means. Run every decision through the filtration of core values. Core values are the curbs on the side of the road to get to your destination. Transference of knowledge, Systems - Free the leader up to not be the technician anymore. Hub for communication for all of the stuff you’re doing. Weekly meeting. How to find time? Block off time to work on vision. Bring somebody in to walk you through the process. How to be a transformative Principal? 1. Block out time and ask what we will look like in 3–5 years. 2. Decide if you really want to do this, recognize that something will change. Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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 Beebe is the founder of My Business on Purpose where he teaches business leaders to be be successful. He also teaches families how to create a family vision mission and value at Create a Family Vision. Being a pastor is like being a leader anywhere else. We want to change their hearts. What are those things? Vision Story - Vision statement is pretty pointless. Vision story is what is exciting. It’s ok for people to not be into the vision. Hiring. Need to give them the vision. Not hiring on a whim. Shareholder letter from Jeff Bezos Mission Statement - Not some catchy thing that sounds good. Highlight key action words in vision story. The mission statement is what drives you to get out of bed. It is the vision story in summary. Unique to who you are. 15 words max, memorizable. What is unique about your school? Use that to your advantage. What do we want our family to look like in 5–10 years? That will affect what our school looks like. What do we want our students to look like 28 years from now? “We exist to…” Mission statement “I see…” Vision story Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

In this episode this week, we are listening to some principals share their core values as a result of what they did as an activity as part of "The Principal 50" book club. I hope you enjoy it.      Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

Today I am honored to interview Kimberly Miles about our Mastermind Group. If you're interested in the Mastermind, please visit http://transformativeprincipal.org/mastermind to set up a call with me to join the mastermind. Narrow my focus to prioritize what I value and what is most Hold myself accountable Bounce ideas off like-colleagues Reflective Recommend it for those who are looking to refine your practice. Do your work at a more effective level. Narrow down to your priorities. Worth the time and money because I am investing in myself. We serve others so much, and this allows me to focus on improving myself, too! Not just about hard data, but also about soft data. Stories that students bring with them are just as relevant. Strengths finder and helps me Look at areas I could refine or enhance. Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

It's time to fill the Mastermind! I'm opening up some slots for the mastermind. Now's your chance to get in and experience what Terri has experienced. I can't wait for you to join! a href="https://calendly.com/jethro-jones/mastermind">So, click here to set up a call! Terri Walker is the Principal of Buckland School in Buckland Alaska. She is also a member of the transformative mastermind. Today, she shares her experience in the mastermind. Felt stagnant after 25 years in education, thought about retiring. Mastermind was breath of fresh air. Goals help you focus on things that matter. Ability to talk about what matters to us, and how we can work together to solve them. It does take some out of my income but it is worth it. This is something I need right now. I need the motivation and support of the mastermind. I would encourage anyone old or new to seek [this mastermind] group and it would be beneficial. If you’re thinking about joining the mastermind, click here to set up a call and let’s talk about getting you the support you need to be your best! 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.

Livonia Michigan Suburban district with 300 students, 16,000 in district Pre-K–4th. 5 years, 21 years in 14 years as a principal @jon_wennstrom sparkoflearning.blogspot.com teacher blog http://wennstromweekly.blogspot.com parent blog PBIS rules are umbrella for 7 habits of highly effective kids. Home grown project for 7 habits. District is very invested in character education. 8 character traits for entire district. Fundamental belief that character education is vital. Empowering students rather than engaging them - George Couros Not another thing on the plate, it is the plate. Building fundamental skills: collaboration, perseverance, grit, skills that will serve them in any location, any job, or any group of people they are with. Parent says “my child came home and my family needs to be more proactive.” Move beyond the vocabulary, but our words do count. What about parents being more responsible of teaching values and school teaching content? Public Service Announcements. Hearing is great, but seeing is even more powerful. PSAs are emailed out and other teachers create videos and share internally. Student-led announcements. Scripted for students. Quote of the week. What book they are currently reading. How to be a transformative principal? Read and connect! Most of my best ideas were not my ideas! Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

Livonia Michigan Suburban district with 300 students, 16,000 in district Pre-K–4th. 5 years, 21 years in 14 years as a principal @jon_wennstrom sparkoflearning.blogspot.com teacher blog http://wennstromweekly.blogspot.com parent blog PBIS school, 7 Habits of highly effective students, Positive phone calls, student led announcements, PSAs. Class Dojo, 23% ELLs Wall feature. School-wide meetings. PBIS school. Monthly, student of the month meetings. Stephen Covey’s 7 habits 3 to be pledge, respectful, responsible, safe Poster contests for that 90–95% parent attendance rate for kids who are students of the month. Weekly meeting. Sunrise and sunset meetings. Goal: build community Sean Gallard #celebrateMonday meetings Doesn’t a weekly meeting take away a lot of instructional time? Increase time-on-task Support staff who help K students get ready. Videos for students, less than 3 minutes. Perseverance, Stephen Covey’s 7 habits for highly effective kids Art teacher creates a canvas to help students showcase their work. Importance of including parents. Positive phone calls on a daily basis. Class dojo process - classroom wall (like a Facebook wall). Parent program for Love and Logic. Process for parent phone calls. 66 day challenge Youth making a difference Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

Participate.com use it for chats–it works really well. Check out this cool minute-long video about how it works. View a longer webinar about participate learning. Everything in there is based on conversations that Brad has with users. Chats are great, but how do you pay attention to everything that you learned from it? Calendar of chats Create collections from chats in the time period. Create collections and share with others. Schools and district hashtags can be involved in this as well to share their resources. Participate as a social network. How to be a transformative Principal: Have a growth mindset and empower everyone in your building. @participatelearn brad@participate.com @spirrison   Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.

This is part 2 of my interview with Susie Wise. Susie has had multiple incarnations at the d.school – teaching EX-Tools back in the trailer days, launching the K12 Lab in 2007 with the Nueva School Innovation Lab project, and jumpstarting Media Ops and Hootenanny design for the inauguration of Building 550 in 2008–2010. Back again in 2012 she is leading our efforts to support the movement bringing design thinking into K12 teaching and learning. Susie stumbled upon design thinking when she took a course with David Kelley in 2003 and the experience helped her make sense of the universe. Susie is motivated by the simple belief that humans are by nature designers. Recently a design strategist and innovation coach at Intuit, her practice centers on inspiring teams to use empathy to get to innovative outcomes. Susie has a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford’s School of Education and is a co-founder of Urban Montessori Charter School in Oakland. She lives there with her husband and daughter (yes, the one in the movie Babies). Design thinking process New way to seek opportunities and problem solve. Traditional Analytic ways of thinking: see a problem, come up with ideas, do a lot of planning Empathize first, to see what they could see. Ask questions, immersion. Understand the space in a human centered way. Define the problem once you have empathy. Once you have framed what you’re going after, ideate. Ideation is about separating idea formation from selection. Yes and vs Yes but. Prototype - make bite-sized change. Test it out in small spaces to see if you are on the right track in a human-centered way. Do it rapidly. How quickly could you prototype and test your ideas? Mine the failures for learning. Questions to ask after empathy experience: Ask Why 5 times. It can be scary to ask Why. It is about people. Somebody pulls out or somebody pulls rank. Let’s run those prototypes. Bias towards action. Practice on hacking things that are not in school. Hack something in life. Breaking it down into the smallest possible size to get quick wins. Take on more complex tasks. How to be a transformative principal? 1. Shadow a student and 2. put yourself in a different position than you have been in. Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox 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.