Brad Shreffler is the host of Planning Period Podcast, Teacher, and Tech Coach in Orlando, Florida. He is also an author and his web site is here.

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• Planning period podcast - How do we fix problems?
• What is the biggest problem facing education today?
• Truly a challenge to answer, and many different answers.
• Recognize that it could be better, but still work in what it is.
• What teachers need in professional development.
• Modeling.
• Why is modeling so difficult for leaders of professional development?
• Leaders haven’t been in the classroom for many years, so they are out of practice.
• Different skill set to do the same strategies.
• PD has become a dirty word.
• The first time you do an innovative model, it will fail miserably.
• Classroom management vs. engaging learners.
• I refuse to lecture to my teachers about the importance of not lecturing to kids.
• Flipped PD model - record what you need to tell them, then meet face-to-face.
• “This is the next thing and it will be gone.”
• Inherent resistance to new things.
• Struggle through the challenge.
• It didn’t work yet.
• Crisp meetings
• Stomach through the fear of failure.
• Have an administrator who is willing to give the feedback.
• You have to push for the feedback.
• I just don’t take myself seriously enough to get offended.
• How to teach someone to have an overinflated ego.
• Build them up.
• Education is fundamentally broken.
• If people aren’t annoyed by what I’m doing, then I’m probably not doing something worthwhile.
• How to be a transformative principal? Find the person who wants to change the world and give them the freedom to do it.

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