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No Box Toolbox with Claude Charron Transformative Principal 265 Feb 10, 2019

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Claude Charron is a Teacher in Miami Florida and director of STEM program in Gulliver Florida. Claude@conradawards.org

Empowering students to make change
Sports has it right in being able to expose kids at a young age to become an athlete.
Things that will not work.
Keeping kids safe doesn’t inspire.
Kids have to choose something they are interested in.
Empathy is vital.
When students are inspired by seeing someone challenged by something, they have a purpose for working hard.
Designing something that matters is what inspires kids.
How designing something that matters inspires kids.
Getting kids to agree on something is an art.
How do you get kids to engage and go down the path where they want to design something that matters.
You do learn things through projects.
Design process since 1997!
What is the art?
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. How do you go from an idea to a working prototype?
Google Sprint method. Book
Modules that would help teachers.
How to select a challenge.
Visualize everything on a board.
No Box Toolbox -
Collaborate with someone visually.
It’s our responsibility to engage kids
If kids aren’t engaged it’s a personal failure on me as the teacher
Shows that kids can each communicate in an effective way to give everyone a voice.
Haven’t reinvented the process. The difference is they are not working in silos.
Once you have the clarity within a team, you have the power to do what the team wants to do.
How to be a transformative principal?
Ask faculty, how can we work together in a way where we are going deeper with kids.

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Guide on the Side PD with Jennifer Hogan Transformative Principal 264 Feb 03, 2019

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Jennifer Hogan is an assistant principal in Hoover, Alabama. Her web site is The Compelled Educator

Rising Tide Radio Focused on women in ed leadership.
Guide on the side for PD with her teachers
School goals take the learning outside the classroom walls.
First session wasn’t about the technology, but about gathering courage and thinking differently about how they thought of their classroom in the past.
Jump-start ideas.
Connect with an expert in their content areas.
Walked around and listened is all Jennifer did.
Decide on something, then figure out technology.
Timeline
Skype and blog with experts
Connections with other classrooms.
What is holding principals back from doing things this way.
How do we want to go about doing that?
Think of as many ideas as possible.
Not many challenges.
School has three goals for learning
How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms.

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Equity Issues in Reimagining Education with Kelly Young Transformative Principal 263 Jan 27, 2019

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Kelly Young is the Executive Director at Education Reimagined, where they seek to help educators create a learner-centered learning environment.

What happens when kids don’t learn the same thing!?
It is a myth that just because things are being taught that all students are all learning the same thing.
Kids are not learning the same things now even though we may be teaching the same thing now.
What are the competencies that kids need to have?
Once kids get over the fear, they realize they have a lot to say.
All of your learning is not going to be in K12
Inspire life-long learning
Equity issues
Examining what bias we might be bringing.
This process of education is incredibly liberating for educators.
How to be a transformative principal? 2 things: 1. Listening and being a team with the educators 2. Actually asking 5 young people and five teachers what it is like for them in the school.
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Education Reimagined with Kelly Young Transformative Principal 262 Jan 20, 2019

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Kelly Young is the Executive Director at Education Reimagined, where they seek to help educators create a learner-centered learning environment.

Non profit in Washington, D.C. that figures out how we can accelerate the transition from school-centered to student-centered
All kids and outcomes that are actually relevant.
A whole new way of seeing education.
Learning is a natural phenomenon.
Unfurl students’ unique potential.
Shifting from the transfer of knowledge to the investigation of unknown knowledge
Einstein National Geographic.
Asking teachers about passionate learning experiences that they had.
Had people that cared about them and what they learned.
Great learning experiences rarely happen in a classroom setting.
Relevant to what kids need to learn.
Why is it so hard for educators to let this go?
It’s what we experienced and what we know.
Maybe there is something wrong with me.
When you’re really struggling with a student, ask what might I do differently and what role can the kids take in fixing the problem.
It always feels risky to invite kids into the conversation.
Iowa BIG - architecture project.
He didn’t have the words to describe what he was missing.

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Gotta Serve Them One at a Time with Jeff Kubiak Transformative Principal 261 Jan 13, 2019

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Jeff Kubiak is a principal in Davis, California.

Didn’t really like school growing up.
Pushed to be an administrator by his now-superintendent.
One of the most diverse counties in the United States.
MAP assessment closely related to state test.
Much more small group instruction and intervention. MAP skills tied in with Khan Academy.
Reclaiming our child by Brad Gustafson.
Technology makes it possible
It might be a little bit loud, but I can still have my kids in the back, and we can be rocking!
Have a hard time having videos to show my teachers.
Encourage teachers to go check out other teachers’ classrooms.
Students set goals with teachers.
Start with why.
Then add the what.
How to help teachers change
Lots of PD - how to have a MAP goal setting conference with students.
Approach each teacher with how it will work for them.
We ask 800 kids to change every day! Why can’t we as adults make one little adjustment?
We don’t gossip.
How to be a transformative principal? Get into all the classrooms. Gotta get out of the office!

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Greatness Requires Internal Toughness with Bridget Belcastro Transformative Principal 260 Jan 06, 2019

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Bridget Belcastro is the principal of Johnnsburg Elementary School.

Principal of every grade level in K-12
Why Bridget joined the mastermind.
I’m always just starting out, even in my 12th year.
Makes me reflect on things that I have experienced.
I can give recommendations or experiences that helped me.
I do have some very specific goals for my career, and I get those through the mastermind.
Intimacy of it, we all have time each week to share what we are doing.
GRIT Program - Greatness Requires Internal Toughness.
A team of 10 teachers developed the lessons.
There is a new series of lessons for each grade level.
We talk about Goal Setting, Perseverance, Overcoming Obstacles, Reflection, Growth Mindset, Etc.
Talk about brain research and famous failures.
Teachers buy into it more when we create it.
Year 1 was very easy, all the lessons look the same.
Year 2 was a little more challenging with fresh approach and different topics.
Year 3 is really challenging.
Teachers have t-shirts Got GRIT?
If I fail, I’ll be OK. I’ll just try it a different way!
Restorative practices - Problem-solving skills
Working through frustrations with kids.
Make sure our practice matches what we’re preaching.
Are we giving kids chances to show that the “Yet” part?
How to be a transformative principal? Reminding yourself that you’re all in this together. Making sure that your staff believes it!

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Being Inclusive Not Exclusive with Joel Lavin Transformative Principal 259 Dec 30, 2018

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Social Media 259: Students choose a topic they want to study, and ask the teacher to help them understand that culture’s values.

Joel Lavin is the principal of River Road / El Camino Del Rio

Teachers that put up welcome signs that were edgy.
Opinion piece following the vandalism.
Discussing racism head-on.
Being inclusive not exclusive
Equity committee that meets to discuss culture, morale, language barriers, etc.
Support students that are not documented immigrants, but make sure that their rights are preserved.
Students choose a topic they want to study, and ask the teacher to help them understand that culture’s values.
How the mastermind benefits Joel.
How to be a transformative principal? Get in a lot of steps to be out in your school!
Dual Language Principal Katherine

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Bilingual is Best with Joel Lavin Transformative Principal 258 Dec 23, 2018

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Joel Lavin is the principal of River Road / El Camino Del Rio

Dual Language is much different.
Studied science and Spanish in college.
We as a nation are just starting to realize how important it is to speak another language.
Broca’s area
Families wanted to have their own language spoken in the school.
Family resource center
2009 started as a dual language program
There were reluctant dual language program.
Change is hard.
Some staff members left.
Teachers are a major factor in school culture.
Talking and being out in the community is really important to help with a big cultural change.
Funds of knowledge community.
Parents’ values reflect what they want their kids to learn.

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Modern Learners with Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon Transformative Principal 257 Dec 16, 2018

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Change school became a powerful space for people to have powerful conversations about school.
Change school brings a level of transparency and honesty that is really powerful.
Have an ongoing conversation with people who have similar ideas and understandings and have had experiences to make it possible.
People feel trusted inside this community.
It can be a difficult conversation about what modern learning should look like.
Constant learning is fascinating.
Tried to create some space for people to connect who don’t have room for that in their physical spaces.
It is very dependent on whether people are school leaders or something else.
The dark ages of change - leadership from the middle.
People who can be influencers - parents, students,
suddenly it’s not just about one teacher or one principal.
How to get parent and student feedback.
You often see yourself very isolated in a school.
People are looking for direct prompts and cues
So much of the educational conversation is led by journalists and politicians. We have to stop that.
People respond with a blank look to a blank slate because they don’t have the practice at it.
Modern Learners Lens
Existing schools - best vehicle for communication is your students.
We’ve conditioned kids to do what we say.
The notion of setting expectations.
If we’re going to shift the goalpost, we need to spend a lot of time talking to parents about the what and the why.
TED Podcast
Do we trust kids?
Four areas that we have to think hard about - Modern Learners Lens
Schools don’t know what they believe, they don’t articulate what they believe
Understand how literacy is changing.
Understand what is actually possible in schools now.
Peter Senge
Most change efforts are not grounded in those conversations.
Modern Learner Community
Change.school for more information
How to be a transformative principal?
Bruce: Engage more deeply in the spaces we already referred to.
Will: Have a willingness to see if you are actually doing what you believe in your classrooms!

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synergy SOS Dec 14, 2018

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