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Three Musts for a Safe School with Randy Sprick Transformative Principal 142 Sep 25, 2016

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Randy Sprick is an educational consultant and trainer in Eugene Oregon. He helps teachers, principals, and other staff set up schools that encourage student responsibility and motivation, and help students learn to behave in appropriate ways. He wrote the book CHAMPS and has lead numerous workshops, trainings, conferences, and much more.

Safe and Civil Schools background
CHAMPS
Attendance ideas
Top 3 musts for creating a safe school environment.
Systematic and planful supervision of the entire school.
If we don’t have enough adults in the halls, bullying is taking place.
Why you want all staff present and interacting with kids.
Presence of people in authority assists people in obeying the rules.
Adults who are actively creating a positive school climate.
The climate of the school is the daily behavior of the adults in the school.
5–10 adults who say hello to kids on the way to classroom.
High expectations that are clearly communicated to kids and overtly taught and consistently enforced.
Any infraction “please honor our school’s policy on ______”.
Communication Cards
Attributes of safe and unsafe school
How to deal with toxic teachers?
Messaging needs to come not just from administrators, but also teachers.
The Checklist Manifesto - the book from which Randy’s reminders about doctor’s washing hands come.
It is not the peer’s responsibility to call out their peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
The Diffusion of Innovations
Link for meeting peoples’ basic needs webinar
Communication Cards
What can a principal do to be a transformative principal? Be more visible.
Safeandcivilschools.com

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How to Make Students Authors with Mark Cheverton Transformative Principal 141 Sep 18, 2016

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Mark Cheverton Twitter is an author, teacher, and physicist.

Why self-publish.
Building self-confidence.
Easy to do and very cheap.
How to be a better writer.
How to not get in trouble for infringing on trademarks and copyright.
Minecraft for Teachers
Spilling Ink - how to write for kids.
Wattpad - start publishing your writing.
NaNoWriMo - Structure to the writing time.
How to be a transformative principal: give kids a place to write about what they want to write about. Being the content expert makes it easier to write.

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How to Write a Book Every 60 Days with Mark Cheverton Transformative Principal 140 Sep 11, 2016

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Mark Cheverton Twitter is an author, teacher, and physicist.

Nerdy writing stuff.
How to be an author.
The process of writing a book.
Story Engineering <-amazon link
Scrivener
Starting writing projects with Excel
Different kinds of writers: Plotters and Pantsers
7 main scenes in a story
Hook
Plot point
Pinch point
Midpoint
Pinch point
Plot point
Resolution
How Mark came to write about Minecraft
Why the books have some valuable message in them.
What teachers can get from Mark’s web site.
Stories that kids shared.

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Planning Building Inservice with Jethro Jones Transformative Principal 139 Aug 28, 2016

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In this episode, I talk about how I ran building inservice.

Here are a couple links mentioned in this podcast.

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Hacking Relevance with Dennis Sheerin

Happy People are More Magnetic with Michael Hyatt

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Inspiring Big Change with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 138 Aug 22, 2016

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Today, I talk again with Jon Laffoon about the big changes you can make in a school and how to make them.

This was part of the Transformative Leadership Summit, which if you didn't get, it's not too late. Over 40 amazing educational leaders came together to teach you how to be an awesome leader. The Summit is over, but you can still get access by buying the All Access Pass.

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Reflecting on the Transformative Leadership Summit with Jethro Jones Transformative Principal 137 Aug 14, 2016

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Listen as I reflect on the Transformative Leadership Summit, which ends August 15, 2016. This is in my mastermind, which you can contact me about joining.

It's not too late to catch some awesome videos. You can even get the All Access Pass.

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Transformative Leadership Summit Q&A with Jethro Jones and Daniel Bauer Transformative Principal 136 Aug 07, 2016

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This episode is the Live Q&A that Daniel and I did for the Transformative Leadership Summit this week. I hope you enjoy it.

The Transformative Leadership Summit launched last Monday. Please, join me! Click HERE to register for Free Access to over 40 amazing education leaders who are ready to make your school the best ever! You don’t want to miss any of these amazing interviews. They’ll be online for 48 hours only! Get in here!

You can even get college credit for your participation in the Summit!

Here's the schedule:

08/01/2016 Monday: Launch party, Will Parker, Brad Gustafson - Expired 08/02/2016 Tuesday: Kimberly Miles, Jeff Zoul, and Daniel Bauer - Expired 08/03/2016 Wednesday: Kendra Washington-Bass, Kyle Palmer, Robert Dillon - Expired 08/04/2016 Thursday: Live Q&A, Jennifer Abrams, Jonathon Wennstrom - Expired 08/05/2016 Friday: Amy Fast, Jethro Jones, Glenn Robbins - Expired 08/06/2016 Saturday: Geri Parscale, Anne Beninghof, Mike Kelly 08/07/2016 Sunday: Bill Ziegler, Clayton Reedie, Vicki Davis 08/08/2016 Monday: Mary McMahon, Doug Timm, Mark Modesti 08/09/2016 Tuesday: Justin Baeder, Neil Gupta, Mike Anderson 08/10/2016 Wednesday: Don Wettrick, Emily Drake, Damon Hargraves 08/11/2016 Thursday: Jen Gonzalez, Eric Connor, Paul Erickson 08/12/2016 Friday: Rob Carroll and Stacey Keown, Erika Mortensen and Christina Lufrano and Rosa Isiah 08/13/2016 Saturday: LaVonna Roth, Marlena Gross-Taylor and a surprise guest! 08/14/2016 Sunday: John Linney, Sean Gaillard and one other surprise guest to close out the conference! 08/15/2016 Closing Keynote with Jethro and Daniel

This Summit is EPIC! Sign up today!

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Failure is not an Option with Rachel Yanof Transformative Principal 135 Jul 31, 2016

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TOMORROW! The Transformative Leadership Summit launches. Please, join me! Click HERE to register for Free Access to over 40 amazing education leaders who are ready to make your school the best ever! You don't want to miss any of these amazing interviews. They'll be online for 48 hours only! Get in here!

Rachel Yanof started the Phoenix Collegiate Academy with the express intent to get all the students to college. I hope you enjoy this interview, as I sure did.

Set a huge goal so failure was not an option.
The huge goal supported the day-to-day decisions.
Pushed ourselves to see if we are on track.
AP classes as freshman.
Small School - individualized and small group instruction.
Only inviting kids to Saturday school and after school who needed the specific skills.
More time - 1 hour in school longer - if used well, can be a huge benefit for the students.
NWEA MAP Assessment - research into college preparedness.
75th percentile is the goal.
Saturday school - get as specific as possible while still managing numbers.
Does cost extra money - spend the resources to make the maximum impact on our students.
We know we need to offer X, we have the means to offer Y.
Governing board sponsors teacher appreciation each month.
Finding other ways to show teachers you appreciate them.
Videos of kids thanking their teachers.
Pay-for-performance fund
Is this scalable?
Haven’t figured out the challenge of hiring on mission in a larger setting.
How to be a transformative principal? Find that thing that you’re willing to live and die for and then tell everyone!

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Every Student in College with Rachel Yanof Transformative Principal 134 Jul 25, 2016

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In just one week, the biggest and best leadership conference for educational leaders starts! Please join me to hear from over 30 experts in leadership and education as we set the stage for our best school year ever! CLICK HERE to sign up.

Rachel Yanof started the Phoenix Collegiate Academy with the express intent to get all the students to college. I hope you enjoy this interview, as I sure did.

First time I confronted the idea that kids could go to a college or not.
Trusting the system could make it so the kids don’t get what they need.
Building Excellent Schools
97% receiving free and reduced lunch. 90%+ minority
Find families through being in their area
Every parent has dreams for their child.
Homework
Overcommunicate
Parents need to be involved in education, active participant.
Mandatory parent orientation, come to us or we will come to you because it is that important that you are part of the team.
Homework is assigned every night.
Not a secret what is happening in school.
Perseverance, respect, integrity, discipline, endurance. PRIDE Report - Tracking positive and negative consequences at school.
Parents come in every quarter for conferences. 100% participation in conferences.
Flipped model in the high school.
Communication-focus in lower grades.

Don't forget to sign up for the Transformative Leadership Summit which starts in just one week! Don't miss any of the awesome presenters including LaVonna Roth, Jennifer Abrams, Neil Gupta, Glenn Robbins, Vicki Davis, and many more! CLICK HERE to sign up!

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How to Listen to Students with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 133 Jul 17, 2016

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JOIN the #1 online conference for Educational Leadership: Transformative Leadership Summit. Join now for free access to over 40 educational leaders expert interviews!

Assistant Principal Dr. Amy Fast explores the responsibility of our schools to focus on the mission, not the mandates.

Microbehaviors
Google Forms 6–8 questions
Created statements based on national student Gallup poll
hopeful
teachers care
connection to one staff member
have friends
I feel like I matter
have you ever experienced discrimination?
Would you report something bad that happened?
Big changes around professional development
what we do in schools has a lot more to do with mindset rather than skill set
Simple ideas are the most profound
Exit slips from teachers were more personal approaches
Changing teachers’ mindsets
What’s best for students is what’s best for teachers
Collaboration
How to be a transformative Principal? Teachers need to feel like they matter and feel hopeful about their future. Give staff a voice and let them know on a daily basis how much they matter. Let’s not fill their cups because they need to be there for kids, but because they are human.
fastcranny@gmail.com @fastcranny

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