Transformative Principal

Mariana Aguilar did some field research to determine what causes students to be engaged in online and hybrid learning environments. How to define student engagement in online and hybrid environments. Hard to define engagement, but we all say we can feel it! You can feel it. Emotionally connected Manifests differently in hybrid environment Hard to read people’s language. How to turn on engagement f...

Danielle Nuhfer is a teacher and you can find more information about her at TeachingWell. Life Bringing Awareness to the present moment without judgment. Taking a step back and trying to think about how to proceed. The benefits of mindfulness in self-care and resilient person in our students’ lives. How to be mindful in talking about the coronavirus situation. Take a breath, think, and respond. Mi...

Crystal Xu and Purvi Patel recently wrote a paper on how to Redesign School Level Systems For Equity. How systems work together. Started with redesign systems work. We actually have a lot more autonomy than we think. Expand our self-confidence around the structures we can control. How we define engagement in school. How do we deal with criticism that we face when we try to implement equitable prac...

James Anderson is a educator, author, and speaker and a master of mindset work. Today we are talking about Learner Agency . Anders Ericson - purposeful practice. Agile Learner - capable of growth, but also knows how to go about achieving the growth. What it means to achieve the growth in life. Growth mindset is how much you see yourself as a learner. How do I get really good at achieving that grow...

Tiersa McQueen is an unschooling mom and has a great story to tell. Follow her insightful comments on Twitter . You can learn a lot of math through cooking. What about math? Math is everywhere. Homeschooling vs unschooling vs public school Many different styles. You can relax a little bit with homeschooling. Ask your child what they want to learn. More of a family interaction. When you have choice...

Cory Henwood is the Innovation Coordinator for Iron County Schools, founder of Launch HS . What Launch HS is? How students demonstrate mastery. There are systemic barriers that prevent people from taking this leap. Lots of groundwork laid for this. Partnerships are really important. How is your partnership with SUU designed? How Launch HS got started. What skills do kids need to be successful? Sta...

Marti Sievek is Assistant Principal of East High School. Tania Lyon is the talent Talent Development Coordinator. Both are in Mankato Area Public Schools Mankato Area Public Schools. District from a GT program to a more inclusive program. Professional development coordinator interim director of teaching and learning. Helping students have access to high quality instruction with no ceiling. Increas...

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Derek Sivers is an entrepreneur who founded CDBaby, and is now writing and doing cool things in New Zealand. Check out his Now page for more information. This episode is about the importance of focus and how to not be distracted all the time. Moved to Oxford for the schools. He grew up outside and that really shaped him. want him to be really focused on whatever he is interested in. If you’re focu...

Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, B...

Dr. Bryan Brockett is a principal of the Lancers in Carlsbad, CA. Principal experience in middle and high school. Are high school kids completely indifferent or focused or somewhere in between? You see transformation take place. Expecting conversation The more we treat students like they’re equally human like us, the more they’re going to join us. Campus supervisors really know the kids. A compreh...

Tamara Fyke is the founder of Love in a Big World , which provides SEL support for families all over the world. SEL is related to their emotional, mental, and physical health. Kids may have experienced more trauma at home during closures than they ever have. Maslow before Blooms. The need that kids have is for connect. The pace of learning is different at home. We have to acknowledge what is most...

Miguel Gonzalez is the founder of Embark education, a micro school embedded in two small businesses (pinwheel coffee and framework cycles) Brian Sense is the Executive Director Great Work, Inc Samara is a student at the Embark school. Microschools vs. traditional schools Blended grade levels. 16 students enrolled with 7th and 8th grade. Embark education is an independent school, which allows us to...

Lyn is a valued member of the mastermind. Tune in to hear her experiences for the last two years as a member.  Join today at jethrojones.com/mastermind 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 in...

Dr. Kulvarn Atwal has been a head teacher for 8 years, educator for 20. He is the Author of The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community Great variation in teachers who had good attitudes and wanted to improve. Interested in finding out how to help every teacher be excited to learn. Focusing our energies on teacher professional learning. The way you impact learning is by hiring ama...

Jeremiah Newell founded Alabama’s first charter school, Accel Day and Evening Academy is Alabama’s first charter school. It serves grades 9–12 and specializes in supporting youth who are disengaged in the traditional high school, have fallen behind, or dropped out all together. I’d like to discuss how ACCEL’s model puts unique supports in place, including academic instruction targeted to the needs...

Emma Turner is the author of a new book called “ Be More Toddler ” Co head teacher in 2009. 5 babies in 5 years, multiple maternity leaves. Flip leadership and think about it differently. Chocolate buttons - What is it that means the most to you that you are going to hold on to no matter what? The Magic Weaving Business - passion, wisdom, righteous indignation Finding things you think are wrong he...

Vijay Ravindran is the creator of Floreo, an app to help kids with Autism understand social interactions. Vijay’s son inspired the app. Combines iPhone with VR headset VR therapy. help in 2 ways. 1. Opportunities to create fun characters. Therapy can get patronizing and monotonous; we make it better. Don’t have a lot of practice in giving kids One of the fascinating things is that professionals us...

Amber Dembowski ( Twitter ) is a principal of two elementary buildings and founder of emBOSSed Leadership. Mindful leadership embedded within instructional leadership. Amber’s podcast Worked in many different facets of education - from para professional to teacher to instructional coach to university to principal. Bringing staff together for professional learning opportunities Article 1. Focusing...

Amber Dembowski ( Twitter ) is a principal of two elementary buildings and founder of emBOSSed Leadership. Mindful leadership embedded within instructional leadership. Amber’s podcast Worked in many different facets of education - from para professional to teacher to instructional coach to university to principal. Bringing staff together for professional learning opportunities Article 1. Focusing...

Sarah Levy and Mark Parmet are the co founders Einstein Academy in Colorado . K–5 and building out to 8th grade Four components of the school: for kids, family, community, today and the future. I got sick of hearing people say, “It’s school, kids shouldn’t have fun.” Setting an environment where kids can be the best they can. While working on things they’re good at, we can also work on things they...

Literacy nerds Beth Lawrence and Deena Seifert cofounders of infercabulary.com Infercabulary is a web-based k–12 interactive tool for helping kids improve vocabulary and skills. speed up learning by making learning vocabulary like Avidly reading. We tend to make words simpler with oral language than authors when writing. SLPs by trade. Why should we help kids learn vocabulary? TedX talk 65% of stu...

Evidence-informed for Real Learning with Eric Kalenze Transformative Principal 334 Social Media: Evidence-informed means looking at what has worked. Eric Kalenze is the author of “What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools From The Bottom Up In A Top-Down Transformation Era.” How to teach practitioners to put this into practice. High school teacher, English, coach, journalism. Help educators ar...