Jack Arend joined the AWSP team in July 2019. He has served in education since 1989 as an elementary, middle and high school music teacher. He began his building leadership career in the fall of 2006 as the principal of Peter G. Schmidt Elementary in the Tumwater School District. After eleven years in the principalship, he served two years at the Central Office level overseeing multiple content areas and mentoring first year teachers.

Jack and his wife are both graduates of Washington State University. Jack received his Masters Degree from Western Washington University and his Administrative credentials from Seattle Pacific University.

Jack and his wife Brenda enjoy living in the Olympia area and love spending time with their three children, Amanda, Emily, and Thomas.

The Move Up Workshop online version is now closed, but if you are interested, you can join the waitlist at my web site

• Move Up workshop
• Do you see your school vision in your classroom observations
• Professional Learning is self-care for the school leader.
• Self-care is how you get your power back.
• From aspiring to retiring
• School Leadership matters
• Are there systems set up that allow you to leave?
• Can you schedule an in-person event and not feel guilty.
• Distributive leadership
• Saddened when people can’t go
• There’s no “coverage for my building” so I can’t go.
• Learning is a part of our job.
• Schools are big machines to keep running.
• It’s no small job that schools run efficiently every day.
• Every moving part is not contingent on moving the wheel.
• It doesn’t always have to be the school leader.
• I thought I was there to take things off their plates.
• Delegation
• Giving people opportunities for others enables me to do other things
• Trust can take so long to develop and take split second to break
• Trust is like walking on a glass tabletop.
• Start with honesty and clarity
• Not taking things off my plate that should be on my plate.
• Let it happen, and don’t micromanage.
• “How’d it go?”
• Drafting a master schedule example
• What are their parameters, and what is out of bounds?
• Importance of understanding the task.
• People want to have a voice
• How to be a transformative principal? Get to know your people. It’s 100% relational.

Lead a school everyone can be proud of.

Being a principal is tough work. You’re pulled in all kinds of directions. You never have the time to do the work that really matters. Join me as I help school leaders find the time to do the work they became principals to do.

I help you stop putting out fires and start leading.

Learn more at https://transformativeprincipal.com

Learn more about today's sponsors, Playworks, IXL Renaissance Learning:

We’re proud to be sponsored by Playworks, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with evidence-based practices that help schools improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

If you’re a school or district leader struggling with the challenge of chronic absenteeism, as so many are across the U.S., you may not realize that structured recess is a research-backed approach to keep kids in school. In fact, a UC Berkeley study of Title I schools found that those partnering with Playworks had significantly lower chronic absenteeism rates. Further, Mathematica research demonstrated that Playworks schools spent 27% less time transitioning from recess back to learning, saving teachers valuable instructional time. 

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We’re also thrilled 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 University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Renaissance Learning. Renaissance helps schools accelerate learning with solutions that make it easier to assess progress, personalize support, and help every student succeed. Visit Renaissance Learning to learn more.