Transformative Principal

David Long, CEO of My Employees . Started the company from Author of Built to Lead: 7 Management R.E.W.A.R.D.S Principles for Becoming a Top 10% Manager. . This book is amazing, and I learned a ton from talking to David. He is a businessman, and not an educator, but he is really on point here. Top 1% in all three industries he has participated in, so topics relatable to all industries. Employee re...

Brian Edmister is the principal of Genesee Valley Elementary School in Genesee Valley New York. Brian was a fellow participant of the Model Schools Conference . Attended many different colleges to complete his degree. Design your own session. Standards based grading. Must create your culture before you change anything. When you create a grade, you create a label. Giving the kids a chance to be in...

Kyle Palmer is the principal of Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Liberty, MO. Kyle was a presenter at the Model Schools Conference in Atlanta, GA. Here are the handouts from his session: Presentation and PDF It’s about relationships, not programs. Transformed school in last year. Competition with others helps him be better. Let’s not change the world, let’s just do our best. Fostering belief i...

Today I am speaking with Ron Fortunato , President of Trillium Learning and employee of NASA AMES research center . Listen to learn how you can get more information about to get your students more engaged in REAL projects! Project-based vs activity-based projects. Coupling students with real-life working projects. If students are able to keep up with the real-world work, they are given an opportun...

Today I am speaking with Ron Fortunato , President of Trillium Learning and employee of NASA AMES research center . Listen to learn how you can get more information about to get your students more engaged in REAL projects! Project-based vs activity-based projects. Coupling students with real-life working projects. If students are able to keep up with the real-world work, they are given an opportun...

This is my second interview with Will Parker . Will wrote a book called Principal Matters: the motivation, courage, action, and teamwork needed for school leadership , and so we talk about his wisdom that is contained therein. Go ahead and buy it. I interviewed Will in Episode 24 of Transformative Principal. A little discussion about technology. Some information on his book. How to make decisions....

  This is my second interview with Will Parker. Will wrote a book called Principal Matters: the motivation, courage, action, and teamwork needed for school leadership , and so we talk about his wisdom that is contained therein. Go ahead and buy it. I interviewed Will in Episode 24 of Transformative Principal. A little discussion about technology. Some information on his book. How to make decisions...

Today I am interviewing Assistant Principal, Entrepreneur, Father, and Hot Mess Brendan Hufford (Twitter) . Thea Bowman Leadership Academy - only successful school in Gary, Indiana. OKkimonos.com and Entrepreneurs and Coffee Podcast are a couple side gigs that Brendan has going on. * Gary, Indiana is a struggling city, but full of amazing people. * Showing trust to students * Leading with trust -...

Today I am interviewing Assistant Principal, Entreprenuer, Father, and Hot Mess,  Brendan Hufford  ( Twitter )! Thea Bowman Leadership Academy - only successful school in Gary, Indiana. OKkimonos.com and Entrepreneurs and Coffee Podcast are a couple side gigs that Brendan has going on. * Gary, Indiana is a struggling city, but full of amazing people. * Showing trust to students * Leading with trus...

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 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...

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