Transformative Principal

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How to change education with Ted Dintersmith Transformative Principal 285 Jun 30, 2019

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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.

How to change schools?
Changing everything overnight - the sharp knives come out.
Thoughtful, supportive resources at innovationplaylist.org
Have your community define essential competencies for your kids.
Look for success points in your school.
Encourage the innovators to do things.
Ask them to keep an open mind.
Native villages
Carving up a moose carcass.
How to be a transformative principal? Spend some time with young kids and recognize that this is the fight we can take on. change happens slowly right up until it happens quick
What do teachers have in common that do innovative things within the system?
What are you seeing China?
Deleted scenes about kids not having homework from Most Likely to Succeed - share that story.
http://teddintersmith.com/innovation-playlist/ *

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Education is the antidote with Ted Dintersmith Transformative Principal 284 Jun 23, 2019

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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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Building Community Relationships with Mia Pumo Transformative Principal 283 Jun 16, 2019

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Mia Pumo is a former teacher and math specialist and currently is the cofounder of Constructive Learning Design, which supports teachers and learners by making learning joyful.

Partnering with community organizations.
Schools often don’t know how to partner.
Businesses don’t know how to join in the work with schools.
Use coaching skills to build relationships.
Learning is much more beneficial when they come together and make a real impact.
Experiential learning - year long process developing a plan around a real issue.
You never know what seeds have been planted through that experience.
How to start the conversation.
Focus on quality partnerships.
How to be a transformative principal? Active listening to create a shared vision.

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Making Learning Joyful with Mia Pumo Transformative Principal 282 Jun 09, 2019

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Mia Pumo is a former teacher and math specialist and currently is the cofounder of Constructive Learning Design, which supports teachers and learners by making learning joyful.

Making learning joyful
I was really starting to contemplate leaving the profession I love because the joy was not there.
We believe that if we design and deliver powerful learning experiences for educators, they will design and deliver powerful learning experiences for students.
Coaches can transform the learning and cultural experiences of a school.
You can’t afford to not have coaches! There are many ways to incorporate coaching into a culture.
Leaders with coaching skills are more effective and more impactful.
Communication, active listening, developing a culture where coaching and feedback are part of the norm.
Have leaders take on that coaching role as part of what they do.
Developing culture falls on the leader.
Set up protocols and structures to make that an enjoyable experience.
Coaching cycles
The best professional development is the teacher down the hall.
Position coaching to the staff as a support, not another observation.
Why is there a stigma related to coaching?

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Compassion Clubs with Brittni Schroeder Transformative Principal 281 Jun 02, 2019

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Brittni Schroeder is the founder of Compassion Clubs, dedicated to the memory of her late son who passed away tragically at the age of 14.

Started with a scholarship fund for students.
Received hundreds of cards and letters from people who cared about Gage.
The “Can Man”
People wanted to be with our family.
“We only suffer when we think about ourselves.” - Tony Robbins
We have to serve. That’s how we heal.
Gave kids pizzas and told them to sit with kids who didn’t have anyone sitting with them.
Elementary and secondary curriculum.
Secondary the kids lead it.
Elementary is teacher/counselor/parent run.
If they don’t know how to serve and think outside of themselves they are going to have a rough adult life.
12 different values: compassion, kindness, gratitude, charity, courage, etc.
Teach about the value, share a story, then serve.
Teenagers don’t seem to have coping skills.
Nominate kids for scholarships and grants.
My son’s legacy is compassion.
Most successful club in Michigan.
How to be a transformative principal? Look for those kids that need to belong.

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There is ONE Learning Process with Jared Cooney Horvath Transformative Principal 280 May 26, 2019

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Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, @jchorvath is an educator and researcher with expertise in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, biological psychology, brain simulation, the learning sciences, and effective teaching/learning practices

There is 1 learning process!
It is the same for everyone.
You don’t differentiate so students learn differently, you differentiate so students engage differently.
If you want to learn something you have to engage in it, but not too much!
Attenborough effect.
Science of learning and craft of teaching.
Thinking principle
Learning principle - all learning has to begin with facts.
Semantic memories for the key 10 or 15 facts. Three episodic memories for a fact.
Episodic memories vs. semantic memories.
All starting of learning builds episodic memories.
How we use inquiry wrong in education.
Surface learning is semantic facts. Binary.
Conceptualization - how are you going to organize your facts. Forming a concept. Can’t be binary.
Contextually emergent skills.
Fear of failure
Learning resilience
Education gives you experience in learning.
How to be a transformative principal? People who you don’t really know what they think at the end, because they are trying to get you to question your own assumptions.

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You are the Relational Manager with Michael C. Reichert Transformative Principal 279 May 19, 2019

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Michael Reichert is an applied and research psychologist who has long been an advocate for children and families. From counseling youth involved in the juvenile justice system through experiences leading treatment teams in a psychiatric hospital, all the while managing an independent clinical practice, Dr. Reichert has tested his understanding of children with practical, even life-saving, challenges.

Every single kind of problem was transformed based on relationship.
It’s the adult’s job to be the relationship manager.
Live up to your goals.
Relational breakdowns.
How do we promote the relationship between the boy and the teacher.
Breakdowns happen all the time.
It’s the responsibility of the relationship manager to monitor whether it has broken down.
The boy that simply checks out and underperforms.
Book I Can Learn From You: Boys as Relational Learners
I won’t learn from you
You may have to develop new skills out of your repertoire to reach kids.
Every type of boy can be reached.
When a teacher reaches their end of their rope, they need to reach out for their help.
You recognize that this is really challenging and it is frustrating. You have the power to change this boy’s life, and I know it is hard, If you can bear with him and continue to check in with him, you can reach him.
How to be a transformative principal? Understand that you are asking your teachers to do this emotional work and validate the challenge that it is while saying boys are relational learners first!

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How to Raise a Boy with Michael C. Reichert Transformative Principal 278 May 12, 2019

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The stereotypes of women has changed significantly in the last 40 years.
There’s been very little to counteract stereotypes of men and boys.
Stereotypes shape boys’ lives early on.
We cannot say that women are limited because of biology, but we still say that about boys.
When Boys become “Boys” - Judy Chu
Started out as direct, authentic and able to articulate themselves. Traveled from presence to pretense by way of posturing.
Inauthentic and less willing to articulate their feelings.
Conditioning comes from everywhere: teachers, parents, peers.
A man box study - messages about being a man. Stoic, unemotional, strong, etc. Men more associated with man box stereotypes were more prone to negative behaviors, including suicidal ideation.
Schools play a profound role in organizing the messages about what Men are.
Every school is occupied by a hidden curriculum.
Most educators feel as though they can’t get their arms around it.
Boys have very little efficacy over the hidden curriculum. Policed by other boys. Often receive subtle and not-so-subtle redirection from adults and other boys.
Student-teacher relationship and significance
One-dimensional type of masculinity that is rewarded in school cultures.
1500-member study of boys and 1000 of their teachers. Tell us a story about a relationship that went well and oe that didn’t go well.
So reassuring that the mask can be taken away when they do have a relationship.
Relationships are transformative in three ways: practically, psychologically, existentially.

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The Revolution with Derek McCoy Transformative Principal 277 May 05, 2019

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Derek McCoy is a middle school principal in Georgia, and a fellow Digital Principal of the Year. He is also the coauthor of “The Revolution: It’s Time To Empower Change In Our Schools”

We still sit in rows, we still deliver everything the same as we always.
The time for shifting is over.
Shift gives comfort, but we’ve got to make some change for our kids.
We’re asking adults to change.
3 R’s is how we conduct business, and it always has been. That’s not going anywhere.
We also know better.
Shifting from the three R’s
Passion - finding something that you’re passionate about. You might have some parents that can’t get into all the fundamental three R’s.
When you’re passionate about it, you don’t give up.
There is a disconnect with schools and parents now.
We know better. We know how the brain works. Learning is more social than it is memorization.
Don’t be the teacher you had as a student,
It’s about learning new, and trying new for our learners.
Change is going to happen, so we can embrace that change for our students.
How do we get the whole system to change?
The revolution@ries primary responsibility to build a vision!
Committing to learner-centered change!
Find your pusher who is going to support you through it and ground your thinking.
Significant change is relative.
Survey and talk to kids?
Getting learner input.
Control vs. Trust
5 core values: communicators, collaborators, __, have integrity, act with purpose
Giving kids opportunity to provide input.
Ask the kids, “How do you see this working?“
How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms. Spend half your day in there talking to kids. Let that be the formative assessment for how you

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Supporting Engaging and Empowering Your Staff with Christopher Jones Transformative Principal 276 Apr 28, 2019

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Christopher is a principal at Whitman Hansen Regional High School.

Transitioning to a new high school.
A new position gives you the opportunity to reflect on where you want to go and who you want to go.
Sharing yourself first.
I’m not a student-centered principal!
I’m a staff-centered principal.
Build staff meetings around getting to know each other.
Building relationships
Every day, with some exceptions, I’m in classrooms giving feedback to teachers.
Out in front playing music with kids.
Using Voxer to give immediate feedback and face-to-face meetings.
Three simple questions: What’s working? What do I need to stop doing? What can I do to make your life better or easier?
Start by supporting, then you engage them, then you empower them.
A good leader is a servant leader.
A good leader becomes a better leader by making others more successful.
Clear the road for others.
Experience is so important and we have to fail to keep learning.
We don’t know how good we can be.
Every student leaving the high school with something in their pocket to prepare them for the next level.
Key components of S1 to raise failing grade to passing grade.
Empowering teachers to give kids hope and keep integrity of the grades.
Teachers choose most important units and then give kids an opportunity to make things happen.
92% of the kids who did winter school passed the year-long course.
Summer Read Smackdown!
Interdisciplinary days - kids don’t come back to a test on the book.
How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms and give honest feedback to teachers so you can have a conversation with them.

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