Transformative Principal

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  Derek Rhodenizer (Twitter Web site) is a principal in Ottawa Canada. He is also the host of the eduthoughts podcast. Principal’s office as a learning space. The Third Teacher book about learning spaces. Why the principal’s office is a learning space. Another tool that a teacher can use. Constructive rather than negative. Permanent audio/visual recording learning space. Whiteboard by the table Legowall 4’x3’ the video Modeling as administrators. Giving ownership of the office to other people models giving ownership of the classroom to the students. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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 We're so grate

  Dana Evans Twitter is the principal of Barnette Magnet School in Fairbanks, AK. Students sign up for dance, tai kwon doe and other physical activities throughout the week. Friday in Fairbanks activity. See a schedule here extra prep time for teachers on Friday. How to schedule things for Fairbanks. Excursions cost about 20,000 a year. Go with the flow is a very important characteristic to have for teachers and students. Students with disabilities are thriving in this environment. Could this work at a typical school? How we could change the typical school to meet individual student needs? Core is grade specific. Start small with afternoon science and a couple How to be a transformative principal? Think of the possibilities. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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 Pape

  Dana Evans Twitter is the principal of Barnette Magnet School in Fairbanks, AK. 3 hours of uninterrupted core math and ELA. explorations in the afternoon. Science, social studies, math, spanish, technology fine arts, extended learning program, etc. Explorations Class Catalog Explorations classes are 9 weeks for three each. Some are year long, some are semester long. Student choice enhances student engagement. Relationships deepen because of looping. Afternoon can be something that students really engage in because they choose it. Magnet school using the same Magnet is the explorations that bring students and families to the school. Lottery system to determine who goes to Barnette. Envision Math and GoMath. Explorations are multi-age in bands. Science and social studies checklists to make sure they get what they need. 416 students, 20 part time students. Have an additional secretary who does all the scheduling. How to deal with endorsements for teachers teaching explorations. How to deal with contractural

James Sturtevant (Twitter @jamessturtevant Website) is an obscure social studies teacher from Central Ohio who is in his 32nd year. Storytelling, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. Empower the kids to find the stories. Fireplace app Chromebooks iOS. Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. Delivering content in a flipped manner. The benefits of flipping your classroom. How to be a transformative leader? Check your ego. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach

Jimmy Casas Twitter is in his 22nd year of administrative leadership.  He received his BA in Spanish and Master’s in Teaching from the University of Iowa and his Master’s in Administrative Leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.  Jimmy is currently working on his ED.S and serves as an adjunct professor for Drake University, teaching a graduate course on Educational Leadership.  Jimmy has served as principal at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa for the last 14 years.   Jimmy’s core purpose lies in serving others. He was named the 2012 Iowa Secondary Principal of the Year and was selected as one of three finalists for NASSP 2013 National Secondary Principal of the Year.  In 2014, Jimmy was invited to the White House to speak on the Future Ready Schools pledge.  In 2015, he was named the Bammy National Principal of the Year.  Jimmy is the Co-Founder of EdCampIowa and also the Co-Founder of #IAedchat, a popular online chat that takes place every Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. CST.  Finally

James Sturtevant (Twitter @jamessturtevant Website) is an obscure social studies teacher from Central Ohio who is in his 32nd year. Hacking Engagement Book and Podcast Need to make engagement a priority. It doesn’t matter how important or cool your topic is if the kids aren’t engaged. A lot of people confuse engagement with compliance. Grab your students by the virtual lapels Tackle problem of engagement on three fronts: technology, teacher strategies, and relationships. Talking for more than 10 minutes is not going to work!   Take the Fall Listener Survey 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   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach

Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com. Bundles vs. one-off activities. Progression of units for teacher use. View of assessments. Using Desmos for testing Interview with Carl Hooker Challenges with using Desmos. Nature of assessments and challenging the status quo. How can teachers get started right now? Take the Fall Listener Survey 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   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal,

Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com. Activity Builder How Michael got connected with Desmos. How Desmos is different from a typical math site. Arguments are more fun when there are people in the room. Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities (Dan Meyer’s Blog) It’s about generating interesting discussions in class. How long should activities in class be? What makes a good activity? Desmos Blog. WOSS (What Other Students Said), Pausing, & Anonymizing names to allow kids to focus on How to get the conversation out of the machine and into the room. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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

  Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas. Purchase her book about life-practice learning here. Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging. How to deal with having learning goals posted when The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities. Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies. Three ways to think about grouping. Ability, interest, readiness Good group-workers and bad group-workers 3 people in a group is optimal. How to deal with friends in groups. How to be a transformative principal? Know why you want to do it. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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 Ad

  Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas. The power of connecting with others Campaign Trail Collaboration These are the projects that we can do. Lessons for Life Practice Learning <-Amazon link ESSDACK Link What are the important elements of project-based learning? Questions to ask as you start doing PBL. Optimal Ambiguity - how to create an environment where kids want to make sense of their situation. Be OK with every kid not being exactly the same. Launch Groupings High expectations Presentation Preparing for PBL Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging. How to deal with having learning goals posted when The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities. Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies. Three ways to think about grouping. Ability, interest, readiness Good group-workers and bad group-workers 3 people in a group is optimal. How to deal with friends in groups. How to be a transforma

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 enforce

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 enforce

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. Take the Fall Listener Survey 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   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coa

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. 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 We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach e

In this episode, I talk about how I ran building inservice. Here are a couple links mentioned in this podcast. Buy the Transformative Leadership Summit Hacking Relevance with Dennis Sheerin Happy People are More Magnetic with Michael Hyatt   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 We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers

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. We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

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.   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

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 D

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