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How We Nearly Doubled Math Scores with Kevin Finnegan Transformative Principal 333 Social Media: When we saw Math could be a discussion, it totally changed everything. Kevin Finnegan is the principal of Prairie Hill School in Illinois. His students recently showed a 77% growth in Math, and we talk about how he made that happen. Prairie hill is the school and the community comes together around it....

Jaime Casap is the Education Evangelist at Google. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of technology and the web as enabling and supporting tools in pursuit of promoting inquiry-driven learning models. Jaime collaborates with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation and iteration into our education policies and practices. He speaks on education, t...

JC Pohl is the co-founder and CEO of TeenTruth.net/schoolculture Young filmmakers looked at coverage of Columbine, and we always saw adults telling the story of what happened. Look into teenage life. Giving students a voice. How to give kids voice? Control - told what to do, what classes to take, and everything else in between. Lack of control really causes a lot of stress in students. Are we doin...

Dr. Wendy Oliver serves as Chief Learning Officer for EdisonLearning, a leading international educational services provider with nearly a generation of experience creating effective and sustainable solutions to raise student achievement.  In this role, her experience in digital learning and curriculum design, paired with her expertise in assessment and evaluation, are leveraged to design an innova...

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph. D. is a mental success coach and cutting-edge leadership consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is currently a leadership and management professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a Ph. D. in Organizati...

Nhon Ma is the co-founder of numerade.com Mom was an educator in South Vietnam, Chinese immigrants who then moved to LA. Grew up in LAUSD system. Better Chance program in middle school. Placed me in a top private school. Shaped my thinking around education. Ride bus to school in a completely different culture. Close educational opportunity gap Prices for tutoring for synchronous doesn’t drop. Larg...

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph. D. is a mental success coach and cutting-edge leadership consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is currently a leadership and management professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a Ph. D. in Organizati...

Ross Romano is Managing Director of Communications & Public Affairs for MindRocket Media Group, a strategic advisory firm providing a range of services to companies and institutions operating within the K–20 education and education technology sectors worldwide. In his current role, Ross oversees all corporate communications for MindRocket, as well as communications and public relations strateg...

Thom Gibson is a middle school math and robotics teacher and high school YouTube teacher in Austin, Texas. Budgeting, saving and spending How we should teach kids about money. Rafe Esquith - Teach like your hair’s on fire. Are you still using classroom economy? Moved away from paper money to all digital Automate a lot of things with it. Classroom jobs . Beginning of year is full of prep work. Jobs...

Tom Murray and I did office hours to support schools during this closure. Here are the questions we answered. If you were on a leadership team, what would you be focusing on right now? High school, middle school, elementary school? People, equity, vision for your school http://bit.ly/ToolsForEngagement   How are you managing fears and anxieties around fall planning? How do you build trust in this...

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...