• Change school became a powerful space for people to have powerful conversations about school.
• Change school brings a level of transparency and honesty that is really powerful.
• Have an ongoing conversation with people who have similar ideas and understandings and have had experiences to make it possible.
• People feel trusted inside this community.
• It can be a difficult conversation about what modern learning should look like.
• Constant learning is fascinating.
• Tried to create some space for people to connect who don’t have room for that in their physical spaces.
• It is very dependent on whether people are school leaders or something else.
• The dark ages of change - leadership from the middle.
• People who can be influencers - parents, students,
• suddenly it’s not just about one teacher or one principal.
• How to get parent and student feedback.
• You often see yourself very isolated in a school.
• People are looking for direct prompts and cues
• So much of the educational conversation is led by journalists and politicians. We have to stop that.
• People respond with a blank look to a blank slate because they don’t have the practice at it.
• Modern Learners Lens
• Existing schools - best vehicle for communication is your students.
• We’ve conditioned kids to do what we say.
• The notion of setting expectations.
• If we’re going to shift the goalpost, we need to spend a lot of time talking to parents about the what and the why.
• TED Podcast
• Do we trust kids?
• Four areas that we have to think hard about - Modern Learners Lens
• Schools don’t know what they believe, they don’t articulate what they believe
• Understand how literacy is changing.
• Understand what is actually possible in schools now.
• Peter Senge
• Most change efforts are not grounded in those conversations.
• Modern Learner Community
• Change.school for more information
• How to be a transformative principal?
• Bruce: Engage more deeply in the spaces we already referred to.
• Will: Have a willingness to see if you are actually doing what you believe in your classrooms!

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