Andrew Terry is in his 24th year in education. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Spanish degree and received his masters in Education in 1999. He began as a Spanish teacher  at the middle and high school levels before moving into administration in 2006. In 2016 he became the principal at Anchorage Public School in the Louisville Kentucky area and has been there for 7 years.

• Observe dismissal procedures
• Small little area, no busses, many kids can walk to school
• Kids were going everywhere
• Teachers loved it immediately because they felt comfortable right away.
• Communication is simpler
• Go through a process and involve a committee and parents
• Pikmykid made it simple and easy for everyone.
• Kiddeo - keeping track of kids when there are emergencies, including communicating police and firefighters.
• Any time you have change, having time to adapt to it is important.
• Independent city school district
• HQIR - High Quality Instructional Resources
• Why such a focus now?
• Evidence-based data to support the kinds of things
• Combining state standards and evidence-based.
• textbooks first, secondary HQIR - internet resources,
• Go through a process with adopting HQIRs. Involve parents in that decision-making process.
• Philosophy in our reading and writing.
• Teachers became invested
• What Works Clearinghouse

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