Transformative Principal

Today, I am honored to interview Anne Beninghof Twitter . Anne is an expert at coteaching and consults with districts about it. In this episode, we talk about the following: What is coteaching? How little things become problematic Paraprofessionals in the classroom Resources on her web site How to introduce teachers to the idea of coteaching Choosing partners Youtube Channel Needs for teachers wor...

Today, I am talking with Brad Gustafson @GustafsonBrad , principal of Greenwood Elementary School #GWGreats. I’ve been a follower of Brad’s blog for a long time. He is inspiring and helps me want to be a better principal. I hope you learn a ton from him, just like I have. In this episode we talk about: Mobile makerspaces Sphero balls - Draw and Drive Working on the Work (Buy the current book: Enga...

Today, I am talking with Brad Gustafson @GustafsonBrad , principal of Greenwood Elementary School #GWGreats. I’ve been a follower of Brad’s blog for a long time. He is inspiring and helps me want to be a better principal. I hope you learn a ton from him, just like I have. In this episode we talk about: Mobile makerspaces Sphero balls - Draw and Drive Working on the Work (Buy the current book: Enga...

I had the great opportunity to interview Michael Santos this week. He is a former convict who spent 26 years in prison for running drugs. He says he never touched the drugs, but organized other people to do it. Pretty amazing story. Michael has a podcast out , now as well. He pipes it into the prison system to help people learn to change. You can learn a little bit more about Michael here: • PBS N...

I had the great opportunity to interview Michael Santos this week. He is a former convict who spent 26 years in prison for running drugs. He says he never touched the drugs, but organized other people to do it. Pretty amazing story. Michael has a podcast out , now as well. He pipes it into the prison system to help people learn to change. You can learn a little bit more about Michael here: • PBS N...

Mr. Gregory Leavitt is the principal of Draper Park Middle School in Draper, UT. Draper Park has experienced some great success recently as a top-scoring school in the state in Math, ELA, and Science . He was the 2013 Canyons District Administrator of the Year Award Winner . In this episode we talk about the following: Cross Curricular Teaming and PLCs. Agenda consists of activities, common vocabu...

Mr. Gregory Leavitt is the principal of Draper Park Middle School in Draper, UT. Draper Park has experienced some great success recently as a top-scoring school in the state in Math, ELA, and Science . He was the 2013 Canyons District Administrator of the Year Award Winner . In this episode we talk about the following: Cross Curricular Teaming and PLCs. Agenda consists of activities, common vocabu...

Mr. Gregory Leavitt is the principal of Draper Park Middle School in Draper, UT. Draper Park has experienced some great success recently as a top-scoring school in the state in Math, ELA, and Science . He was the 2013 Canyons District Administrator of the Year Award Winner . In this episode we talk about the following: Cross Curricular Teaming and PLCs. Agenda consists of activities, common vocabu...

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Tech Club at Jason's school. You can never have enough clubs or strong electives at your school. What kinds of activities can put kids out in front? DJ-ing the school dance. How to start clubs - Just ask the kids! Staple clubs - tech, video announcements, music, Minecraft club, etc. It is ok to have just a few kids at each club. How to have clubs that are flexible (teaching chess vs playing chess)...

Jason is an assistant principal at a middle school who taught for 9 years as a science teacher at the high school level. After working with Assistant Superintendent on 1:1 initiative and creating his own classroom, he realized that he was able to see education in a different light, and chose to go into administration. Having a say in what is going on in your classroom can only lead to good things....

Sue Szachowicz was a student, teacher, assistant principal, and principal at Brockton High School . Article about the success of Brockton High School . New York Times article . Letters to the Editor . State Tests started in 1993 in Massachusetts and the school was living in denial of whether or not the state would deny a diploma based on the state test. Why would a student continue going to school...

Bill Daggett is the founder and Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education . He has worked all over the world helping schools improve and currently hosts the model school conference which showcases the 40 top performing schools in the country. Other nations were doing some things better than us, but not everything. One thing we do much better is educating ALL students. No nat...

There is a little audio issue at about 2:15 (and at the end) from my new microphone that I used for this. I couldn’t remove it without removing the whole piece. Please forgive me. ;) Randy Barron Kennedy Center Teaching Artist. More info here Kennedy Center teaching artists integrate arts into the curriculum. Much more focused on students creatively solving problems. Arts integration is an approac...

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 Use code TRANSFORMATIVE to save $10 Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal .   We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, lang...

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 Use code TRANSFORMATIVE to save $10! Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal .   We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, lan...

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 .   We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studi...

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 .   We’re proud to be sponsored by IXL .  IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studi...

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. Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal .   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 achie...

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. Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal .   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 achie...

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. Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal .   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 achie...

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com 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 University, IXL can help you do the following and more: Simplify and str...

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com 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 University, IXL can help you do the following and more: Simplify and str...

Show notes and listener survey on  http://transformativeprincipal.com 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 University, IXL can help you do the followin...

Show notes at  http://transformativeprincipal.com/ken-daly . Please take the listener survey at  http://transformativeprincipal.com 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 f...