Dr. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the Arts

• First High School charter in the state of Utah - focused on the performing arts.
• Working to partner more with the Center for the Arts.
• Talking times - actors and actresses talking about their experience become actors and actresses.
• Professional actors asking, “How can we connect and teach classes?
• Compliance vs. deeper learning.
• Idea of moving past compliance and on task
• Idea of being joyful and passionate.
• When doing auditions can bring working professionals in to participate as well.
• Teachers are working outside of the classroom on their own careers to
• Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Trevor McKinsey - Dive into inquiry
• Math exists in Art, dance, etc.
• Middle is messy, but it is where the magic happens.
• Everything is not defined.
• Don’t give out rules and such. Ask kids what they are curious about.
• Be mean until December doesn’t really cut it anymore.
• Belief that education does need to change.
• Kids are excited to be here.

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