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Using Video Games as Text with Zachary Hartzman Transformative Principal 314 Jan 19, 2020

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Zachary Hartzman is a high school Economics & English teacher in New York City.

Taught many different social studies classes.
International and transfer school. 100% immigrant & ELL students.
Passionate about videos games.
Getting kids to interact with games
Florence - great app for relationships.
Using games to deal with discussing heavy issues.
Whenever I teach one of these lessons, I write a post showing how it went.
It’s been really hard to find engaging content that
3 days a week, I teach an ELA course using video games as the main text.
Gone Home
What Remains of Edith Finch?
One student playing while everyone else is talking about the gameplay.
Regents exam required for graduation - read a text and identify the central idea, so we use the videos games to focus on those literary events.
You have to give them time to learn how to use the controller.
Positive outcomes: Whenever I teach with a game, there’s never a head down that day.
Expanding the curriculum, but would love to get more science and math.
How to be a transformative principal? If a teacher comes to you with a potentially wacky idea, hear them out.

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Keeping Up With The Joneses with Jethro Jones Transformative Principal 1054 Jan 18, 2020

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I've got some exciting news to share with you....

But first, a little context.

The last few months have been pretty exciting.

I've started a student driven learning newsletter in partnership with ASCD.

I spoke at the ReWire conference in New Jersey.

I've been at FETC this week, and have some amazing interviews coming out on the podcast soon.

The podcast is at 600,000 downloads for its six-year anniversary. (click here to get an email each Sunday when it is released!)

I am a New Team Habits Champion!

My wife and I have started coaching families on how to set goals in a family setting! How cool is that?

I'm giving a keynote at a conference in February, more details soon...

And here's the big news:

At the end of this school year I will be leaving Fairbanks and start supporting principals directly full time through the mastermind, speaking, and consulting.

I'm pretty excited about our new adventure, and I hope that I can work with you! If you've got a need for a speaker in the next six months, please reach out.

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Taking a Planned Year Off with Kimberly Dixon Transformative Principal 313 Jan 11, 2020

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This is an amazing story of how Kimberly's district set them up for success so they could find time for the important things in life. What a cool and unique approach.

Kimberly Dixon is principal in Toronto

Took a year off to take some coursework.
Mother had supported her at the beginning of her career.
Lacking balance.
Four over 5. Paid 80% over four years then paid 80% for fifth year.
Typically accept about a dozen people for that in our district.
Became principal and started coursework to become a superintendent at the same time.
I realized I had been working really hard so travel was definitely a goal.
I had to operate within the parameters of
Principal of a summer school program in South Korea, kids met in South Korea and then went to the Philippines.
Be present as a mother and take care of myself.
The year was very unplanned.
School seems very Eurocentric, but our schools are so diverse.
Families are always excited
The balance needed in life to be your best.
Without balance, we run into issues of burnout
It’s about putting myself well into the time I have.
Not having that rushed approach. Respecting my time when I’m not in school and not “on.”
Giving a lot of yourself to other people’s children.
Having a purpose for my days.
Be in each classroom before every major break in the day.
None of my goals could happen unless I built the relationships.
No more than one evening event each week.
More balanced for my own kids and the kids at school.
How to be a transformative principal? I’ve discovered who being me is! Try to center yourself in some way to figure out what makes you peaceful.

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Disney is the Best at This with Turner Jones Transformative Principal 312 Jan 04, 2020

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Turner is the principal of Tristate State Christian Academy in Elkton Maryland.

Rewire conference - really powerful conference in New Jersey
It’s easy to get the ideas of a person by reading their blogs or listening to a podcast
Most recent fascination is Disney.
Disney does this better than anyone else in the world.
Creating Disney Magic podcast.
Parents are church leaders and they read diverse materials.
We are all aiming for the same thing: becoming great leaders
The one thing podcast interview referenced.
The Way Of The Shepherd book.
Building a Storybrand book.
businessmadesimple.com
Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
How to be a transformative principal? Check in on your teachers because you care

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For the Sake of Our Youth with Tessa Stuckey Transformative Principal 311 Dec 28, 2019

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Tessa works with teenagers, and has decided to take on parenting from a new perspective. While patiently waiting for her book’s completion "For the Sake of Our Youth: A Therapist's Perspective on Raising Kids in Today's Culture" (due to hit the shelves Spring 2020) Tessa coaches and presents to parents her research on today’s teen depression, anxiety and suicide rate focusing on parent/child connection. You can connect with her at her website Tessastuckey.com or follow her on instagram @themomtherapist.

Why she wanted to work with teens and parents.
Kids came to me with suicidal thoughts.
It scared me that they were going to grow up in a world where suicide was so common.

6 cultural influences that are happening in today’s world.

Social Trend - people see it and so they think it. Not being balanced with appropriate preventative care.
Immediate gratification - everything is just a click away. Teaching our kids how to struggle. There is no instant fix for an emotional hardship. You have to think a little unnaturally to slow things down a little bit.
Lack of personal connections are being made. Social media is meant for connection but it doesn’t create the same closeness and bond.
Attention seeking - longing to feel important. It has become an acceptable way to get attention in our society. Reacting to a lack of attention and lack of resilience.
Social media - 5 categories: don’t need to connect face to face, comparison, kids can’t turn their social life, cyberbullying (hurt people hurt people), phone addiction.
Pressure - we live a go-go-go lifestyle. No mercy and no grace. Everyone is striving to be perfect.
Be the supporter and helper for your child and not the fixer for all their problems.
How to be a transformative principal? Understand your own philosophies on the kids you interact with. What are the core values you want kids to have when they leave your school? This is not just mental illness anymore.

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Confronting with Kindness with Rachel Brown Transformative Principal 310 Dec 22, 2019

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Rachel Brown is a Curriculum, Instruction, & Professional Growth Strategist for Douglas County School District.

Power in the missed opportunities
You have the power of leading culture in your building.
Even the opportunity of saying hello to a kid is really powerful.
Each teacher had to own making a positive interaction with each child.
When things were going unsaid, they festered
Confronting with Kindness
the things you don’t say could have a big impact on the climate and culture.
Emotional intelligence - Elena Aguilar work on the art of coaching teams.
Have to get rid of your ego, go in in a way that you open yourself up like a book.
Buy the Communication Cards
We didn’t do our best work.
Kids couldn’t tell who was the principal
New principal was very communicative and it changed the culture.
How to be a transformative principal? This is a rough time for some kids and you can take the time to be an impactful person and not miss the opportunity to make a little adjustment to make your school feel like the safest home for those kids.

Turmoil with change in leadership because of lack of communication and emotional intelligence. * Talking with team about how to make things better. * People coming to say

Lost sight of standards - using the standards as our base.
student centered coaching - to try to come
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best
http://www.jethrojones.com/presentations

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Learning with AI with Adam Bellow Transformative Principal 309 Dec 14, 2019

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Adam Bellow is a dedicated educational technologist and father of two young boys. Adam is the co-founder of Breakout EDU, the immersive gaming platform that enables teachers and students to turn their classrooms into a place of discovery and inquiry based learning. Today we will be talking about learning with AI.

How AI will play into education.
Metacognitive piece - technology is serving our needs.
Really helpful to a teacher.
Empowering kids to get access to their own information before you.
Building a voice profile.
The use of the tool will have to outweigh the fears we have of it.
You likely have an assistant available.
My kids are very comfortable with robots.
Game Designer
Askmyclass
Giving them the open-endedness is really powerful.
as we look at school as more than just work-produced.
How to be a transformative leader? Have a conversation with a small group of students

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Cope, Adjust, Transform with Dwight Carter Transformative Principal 308 Dec 08, 2019

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Dwight Carter is an award-winning school leader from Central Ohio. He believes reflection is at the heart of our practice and encourages principals, teachers, and students to focus on personal skill development to create the optimal conditions for learning to take place. Because of his collaborative and innovative leadership as a principal, he inducted into the Jostens Renaissance Educator Hall of Fame in 2010, he was named a 2013 National Association of Secondary School Principals Digital Principal of the Year, the 2014 Academy of Arts and Science Education High School Principal of the Year, and the 2015 Ohio Alliance of Black School Educators Principal of the Year.

Teaching in disruptive times.
Mark Wright - coauthor of book.
reforms are occurring in a shorter amount of time.
How to handle disruptions
3–5 years for an initiative to stick but turnover is huge.
How to deal with disruptive events?
Cope
Adjust
Transform
So many pathways to graduation and high school credit.
Moving beyond credit recovery to credit acceleration.
Schools are taking opportunity to remove barriers.
Simply start by asking the question and have the conversation.
What else can students take in place of ___ required learning?
Kids have so much more opportunity today because of their access to opportunity.
Negative impact of technology on their social emotional health.
Both/and
Generation Z - It’s all about choice.
Work-based learning students doing amazing things
The kids became teachers to me.
How to be a transformative principal? Gather a group of students for an hour and ask them about how to improve their learning experience

Jethro

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My Grandma's Kitchen with Dr. A. Katrise Perera and Dr. Kimberly Miles Transformative Principal 307 Dec 01, 2019

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My Grandma’s Kitchen with Dr. A. Katrise Perera and Dr. Kimberly Miles Transformative Principal 307

Social Media: Learning should be joyful. - @afewthingsworth

Dr. A. Katrise Perera peers acknowledge her commitment, her dedication, her courageous leadership and for being an “equity warriorette.” In 2015, the National Association of School Superintendents (NASS) named her the National Superintendent of the Year. Before being recruited and hired by the Gresham-Barlow School District (Oregon) in May of 2017, she served in a variety of school leadership positions in Virginia, Texas, and as an executive leader with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

Dr. Kimberly Miles is principal of East Gresham elementary, a turnaround principal and voracious reader.

In this episode we will discuss equity in leadership and how to have joyful moments.

Be determined.
Perspectives of many other experiences.
Equity in a school system is that it involves more than just a student and a teacher.
Giving kids what they need when they need.
In the kitchen with my grandmother.
To have equity, you have to look at what kids are actually in need of.
Look at policies, practices, systems, and more.
what little things should we focus on?
Is my approach helping them thrive?
The foundation is culture.
Need to know social and political response as well.
Community Success Act
We’re all going to get what we need.
how to change the culture of putting the newest teachers with the most challenging situations?
New teachers to the profession, because I can partner them with a collaborative team.
Mentor teacher leaders.
Benefit for new teachers to be supported by master teachers.
Starts with professional development.
How to be a transformative principal?
Kimberly: Share the responsibility of change with someone else. Bring along your community together.
Katrise: commitments—commit to reducing disproportionate suspension rates, early college, cultural competencies - commit to one!

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Innovate Inside the Box with Dr. Katie Novak Transformative Principal 306 Nov 23, 2019

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Katie Novak, Ed.D. is an internationally renowned education consultant as well as a practicing leader in education as an Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts. With 15 years of experience in teaching and administration, an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, and 3 books published by CAST Professional Publications, Katie designs and presents workshops both nationally and internationally focusing on implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and universally designed leadership.

Today we talk about her book with George Couros, Innovate Inside the Box.

UDL what is it?
Multiple means of engagement
multiple means of representation
multiple means of action and expression
Universal design stolen from architecture.
The traditional model of education is there is “one way to do it.”
We’re making content accessible as retrofits for really inaccessible lessons.
Dinner party.
Engagement is equal parts commitment and attention.
Enrollment vs. engagement.
When things get touch, I know how to manage it.
Macro success looks like little bits of attention.
Application for students with disabilities.
If we want kids to be learners, we are much better slated to help kids create their own journeys to get there.
How do we scaffold up to make it accessible and engaging.
In my loyalty to that ____, I am excluding students.
How do we teach empathy through these multiple means lenses?
What do I have to do so every single student can do that?
General ed teachers started referring to kids with special needs as their kids.
When we see growth, it’s because of the teachers.
How to be a transformative principal? In a classroom I believe in cocreation. Work with teachers to co-create professional learning and school improvement plans.

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