Transformative Principal

Jethro Jones met up with Marlena Gross-Taylor at the Future of Educational Technology Conference earlier this year.    Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator...

Tom Murray and Jethro Jones hosted office hours for people to answer questions during these school closures.  We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins Univ...

Katie and Camille are the dynamic duo of Educational Technologists in Canyons District. I worked with them nearly a decade ago. This interview is from #FETC2020   Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teach...

An interview with Ed Tech Digest's Mark Gura and Victor Rivero from #FETC2020 Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development ma...

Adam Geller is the Founder of Edthena , a video coaching program.  Enjoy this chat from #FETC2020 Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to profess...

Join host Tamara Fyke and Jethro Jones of Transformative Principal for a conversation about how to keep yourself calm when you’re feeling stressed and nervous. We will talk about: Phrases to show empathy Phrases to give yourself some time to think! Phrases to calm fears How to control your voice. Phone vs. in person vs. video conversations. We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive...

A great interview with Tom Murray at #FETC20 earlier this year.  Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that...

At FETC2020, I had the privilege of interviewing Rebekah McPherson and Nikoski Darnell .  Such a great conversation. I hope you enjoy it.  Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational , has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensu...

I had a 1:1 coaching call with Natalie Irons. She’s awesome. If you want to reach out for help, you can send me a text : 801–252–6368 We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research...

Matt Pavao is a principal in Burlingame, California. The following is a transcript of our conversation.  I'd love to talk about my school will be a lot lots of things going great at the school in the district. I have a small district in in the Bay Area, like you said, We're right near the San Francisco Airport. We are a school of 338 students k five. We are title one school. We are also school. It...

Jeff Becker and I are hosting a webinar about how to implement SEL in your school. Register here ! Jeff is a former school counselor and current video production teacher in Florida. He also hosts the CanDoU SEL podcast and produces courses for high schools to use to support their students. Check those out here . It won’t work unless you address SEL with staff, too People feel ill-equipped to do SE...

Systematizing Our Professional Development For The Charter School with Amanda Huza Transformative Principal 320 Social Media: We’re not wasting the time of teachers who have already mastered that aspect of teaching. Amanda Huza is the principal of Equality charter school . Serve about 630 middle and high school students in the bronx. Share space with two other partner schools. 27 teachers - 50% of...

Kim Marshall is the founder of the Marshall Memo and Jenn David-Lang is the founder of the Main Idea . We talk about their new book, “The Best of the Marshall Memo,” As a principal I rarely had time to read in a thoughtful way. Why write a book about the Marshall Memo. Articles not organized. Professional development ideas. Educational journals have theme issues. How to take the next step from the...

Phil Echols is an Administrator of Professional Learning supporting K-12 needs in the area of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and coaching in Wake County Public Schools in North Carolina. Psychology major and teacher in his home town. Counseling The power of Twitter. People often find a way to monetize things Monetization of the network. You can’t monetize the network - via @adamcurry * #...

Cristina Garza is the director of social impact for the Mission Economic Development Corporation. She curates and leads all STEAM and entrepreneurship initiatives for this EDC, and through this work commits herself improving the financial mobility of area residents, and fostering progressive and equitable economic development practices. Among the programs she founded are Web of Women, an initiativ...

Cristina Garza is the director of social impact for the Mission Economic Development Corporation. She curates and leads all STEAM and entrepreneurship initiatives for this EDC, and through this work commits herself improving the financial mobility of area residents, and fostering progressive and equitable economic development practices. Among the programs she founded are Web of Women, an initiativ...

Sam Brooks is honored to have worked for Putnam County Schools (TN) for the past 27 years. Brooks leads all student/teacher personalized learning opportunities in the district, which includes online, dual enrollment, dual credit, and industry certification options. Mr. Brooks is a Google Certified Trainer and was recognized by the Center for Digital Education as a national Top 30 Technologists, Tr...

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 wr...

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 ann...

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...

  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 divers...

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 con...

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...

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 need...

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...