Transformative Principal

Dr. Paul Govani, an expert in human performance and coaching, emphasizes the importance of errorless learning and the role of AI in education. He believes that teachers need more practice and feedback to be effective, and that regular feedback for students is crucial for learning. Dr. Govani also discusses the need for tight feedback loops and the use of simulations to prepare teachers.

• Errorless learning
• Making sure that students don’t make mistakes
• Gradual release
• AI can play a huge part in improving education
• The human element cannot be removed from education.
• Learning happens from the environment.
• Replace learning
• Gives teachers a different role.
• Education holds the key to success
• We’re not doing a very good job educating our educators.
• Too much theory, too little modeling, too little feedback.
• Simulations hold the key to getting teachers ready to do the work of being a teacher.
• Practice vs. game time.
• Leaders get even less practice.
• Got to equip people with knowledge and skills in the teacher program
• If you start blaming people, you aren’t doing science
• You can’t learn on the job.
• Prepare them to a certain level and then support them.
• Teachers are being dropped into the classroom before they are actually ready.
• 2 parts of the assessment.
• Kids need regular feedback - positive and corrective
• Delay in that feedback delays learning.
• Have teachers enhance learning through their activities.
• Admin has management ratios that are too high.
• Frequency count of skills
• People need tight feedback loops.
• Why measuring opportunities to respond works behaviorally.
• Pick one or two structures a week.
• Discretionary effort
• How to give tight feedback loops
• Preplanned corrections
• Social validity - how do people feel?
• Survey data that’s not going back to the leader, but going back to the coach. Give them the why.
• The 5 Laws
• What kind of questions should we be asking?
• Are we moving in the right direction, being supported? Look for leading indicators.
• Connect with Paulie here.
• Professional Crisis Management

About Paul Govani

An expert in human performance, coaching, and organizational leadership, Dr. Paul “Paulie” Gavoni has worked in education and human services for 20 years.

He has served in a variety of positions including COO, Leadership Director, Assistant Principal, School Turnaround Manager, Clinical Coordinator, Therapist, Behavior Analyst, and Adjunct Professor at IRSC, FAU, and NSU.  Beyond his direct work with students in poverty and those suffering from behavioral and mental health issues, Dr. Gavoni specializes in providing administrative teams, teachers, and staff with training, coaching, and consultation with analyzing and developing behavior and performance management systems to positively impact key performance indicators. As a behavior scientist, Dr. Gavoni is passionate about applying organizational behavior management (OBM) strategies to establish positive environments that engage and bring out the best in people so they can bring out the best in the children they serve.

Former fighter and golden gloves heavy-weight coaching. He uses the science of human behavior to train fighters. He’s also a wall street journal and new york times best selling author

Dr. Paul “Paulie” Gavoni is a behavior scientist specializing in human performance, coaching, and organizational leadership who has worked across education, human services, and sports for over two decades. In this capacity, he served the needs of children and adults in various positions including COO, Vice President, Director of School Improvement, Leadership Director, Professor, Assistant Principal, School Turnaround Manager, Clinical Coordinator, Lead Therapist, Trainer, Coach, and Behavior Analyst. Dr. Gavoni is passionate about applying Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) strategies to lead and help other leaders establish positive and engaging environments across industries that bring out the best in people. He is a Board Member of the Opioid Awareness Foundation and The World Behavior Analysis Day Alliance. Known for his authenticity and practical approaches, Dr. Gavoni hosts the Thoughts & Rants of a Behavior Scientist and the Crisis in Education Podcasts. He is also a sought-out speaker at a variety of Educational, Sports, and Behavior Analytic Conferences and co-author of Wall Street Journal and USA Today’s Best-Selling The 5 Scientific Laws of Life & Leadership: Behavioral Karma; Quick Wins! Accelerating School Transformation through Science, Engagement, and Leadership; Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance (#1 Amazon Best Seller); MMA Science: A Training, Coaching, & Belt Ranking Guide (#1 Amazon New Release), and QUICK Responses to Misbehavior for Reducing Misbehavior and Suspensions (#1 Amazon Best Seller). In addition, he is currently preparing How to Determine if Your Leadership is $hitty. Dr. Gavoni is proud to introduce ABA & OBM to a massive audience through his numerous publications. Beyond his work in education and human services, Dr. Gavoni is a former Golden Gloves Champion and highly respected striking coach in combat sports. Coach “Paulie Gloves,” as he is known in the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) community, has trained world champions and UFC vets using technologies rooted in the behavioral sciences. Coach Paulie has been featured in the books Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts, A Fighter’s Way, the feature article Ring to Cage: How four former boxers help mold MMA’s Finest, FX’s The Toughman, and was recently featured in the Lifetime reality series Leave it to Geege. He is also an author who has written extensively for online magazines such as Bloody Elbow, Scifighting, Last Word on Sports, and Bloody Elbow, where his Fight Science series continues to bring behavioral science to MMA.

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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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In this podcast episode, primary educator and entrepreneur Emily Garcia discusses the science of reading and the role of teachers versus AI in teaching children to read. While there is systemic and explicit phonics-based instruction that is necessary for effective reading instruction, there are also many factors that prevent AI from being able to fully replace teachers. Teachers provide multiple inputs and value in partner reading and are necessary for building a classroom community and managing the classroom. However, when applicable, teachers should use AI as a tool to enhance their teaching methods. The decision of when to use AI should be made during PLCs and based on what is working for the students.

This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. 

• Science of reading
• Systemic and explicit phonics-based instruction.
• Just too many factors that prevent
• It is so highly technical
• AI cannot detect CVC and other
• Do we still need the teachers?
• Multiple input from having a teacher there.
• Value in partner reading
• Human standpoint: How do we attack this word?
• The scope and sequence are over 100 pages.
• AI cannot comprehend yet all that has to be done.
• Illustrations, clip art, and more.
• Teachers are amazing, and we’ll never be able to replace teachers with AI or a bot.
• instant gratification vs. instant feedback.
• Incredibly difficult to teach phonics.
• Teachers have to be there for the class to run smoothly.
• With no teacher, there’s no community.
• Classroom management vs. classroom community.
• You don’t have to be as great at teaching methods if you are great at building community.
• When applicable, teachers should absolutely be using AI.
• Teachers have to decide when it is appropriate.
• This feels a lot like technology in the 90s and 2000s.
• How to determine when AI should be used or not used? During PLCs, it’s about the conversation and how people are using AI and what is working.

About Emily Garcia

Emily Garcia is a primary educator, a passionate advocate for quality education, and a visionary entrepreneur. With her unwavering commitment to revolutionalize the educational landscape, Emily has made a significant impact by founding Education to the Core, an organization that has served over 500,000 classrooms worldwide.

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Dave Hurwitt is an innovator. Over the course of his career, he’s led the development and launch of new products and services – from toothpicks to wind turbines – that have generated well over $1 billion in sales. 

Having worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to discover how often students were transferring or dropping out altogether. 

In early 2020, this led directly to his founding Troove, a 2-sided, AI-powered platform to help students discover their passions, people, and place based on the real experiences of recent alumni and current higher education students.

This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. 

• How Troove works
• Take the idea of suggestions from Netflix or Amazon and apply it to college.
• 15-minute quiz, how do you ask the right questions to get the answers that make sense of the patterns?
• At any school, there is an in and out of the classroom experience and culture.
• Less self-awareness.
• Finding experts who can explain psychological safety.
• Keep layering in more and more data.
• Social culture preferences and learning culture preferences.
• Doesn’t have to be complete to start.
• Continue to explore the good stuff.
• Open to sharing data and information about yourself.
• Willingness to share and age are tightly correlated.
• How can we make that sharing of information safer, data safe, and help them see themselves more clearly?
• Incomplete information about schools without complete information.
• Making informed decisions about their future.
• Is this too complicated?
• Start taking steps - the request: go explore new technologies that might be useful that we can afford to trial.
• Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
• Just get started.
• Connect with Dave

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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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

In this episode, Jethro and Fred discuss chatbots and artificial intelligence. The episode covers the history of chatbots, including the Turing Test and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Bing, and Jasper. The potential uses and issues with chatbots are explored, including incomplete or misinformation, theft of intellectual property, inappropriate uses, and threats to various types of jobs. The episode also touches on the impact of chatbots on education and the potential for the weaponization of disinformation, cybersecurity, and more emotion-targeted advertising.

• Beginning of Cybertraps Podcast Episode Index
• Writebettr.com - test out AI with your poorly written emails
• AILeader.info - learn about AI and how to use it to save time with 3-minute masterclasses.
• Today’s Topic: Bot’s Up, Doc?
• Keynote delivered at last minute for Alaska Society for Technology in Education
• Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence
  • Why chatbots are NOT “artificial intelligence” – yet
• “The Father of Chat”
  • The Turing Test
  • Alan Turing OBE FRS [1912–1954] – British mathematician and computer scientist
  • Leader in the development of computer and algorithmic theory
  • At Bletchley Park, helped design a machine to crack the Enigma code
  • 1950 – Turing devises The Turing Test:
    • Can a computer produce answers indistinguishable from a human?
    • The Imitation Game
  • 1954 – Turing commits suicide
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • ChatGPT (esp. 4)
  • Bing
  • Jasper
  • embedded AI
  • Photoshop
  • Google Workspace
  • incredibly rapid change
• Current ChatGPT Issues
  • Incomplete Data or Misinformation
  • Theft of Intellectual Property
  • Inappropriate Uses
  • Response to MSU Shooting
  • Threat to Various Types of Jobs
  • Mid-to Lower-Level Tech
  • Media / PR Professionals
  • Customer Service
  • Paralegals / Attorneys?
  • Religious Leaders?
  • Monetization
• A Quick Object Lesson
  • Censorship Is a Biz-Kill
  • China Was a Tech Leader in the 2010s
  • WeChat
  • AliPay
  • Beijing (CCP) Got Nervous
  • Party Officials Took Corporate Seats
  • The goal Was to Limit Social Influence
  • Chinese Tech Companies Slashed  Investment in Pure Research
• ChatGPT and Education
  • A Flawed Resource for Students
  • Incomplete Information
  • Misinformation
  • Kids Will Use Technology to Cheat
    • Not the First Time …
    • Several Schools Have Had Cheating Scandals
    • NYC Blocked, then Unblocked, Access to ChatGPT
  • Responses and Solutions
  • Tools for Identifying Chat-Generated Content
  • Incorporate Chat Critiques into Curricula
  • The Revenge of the Palmer Method?
  • Create Assessments that ChatGPT Can’t Answer
• The Parade of Horribles
  • Weaponization of Disinformation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Social Engineering
  • Scams and Spams
  • Manipulative Suggestions
  • Integration with Other Technologies
  • More Emotion-Targeted Advertising
  • Displaced Emotional Relationships
  • Personalized Chatbot (“Amanuensis”)
  • Fasten Your Seat Belt. It’s Going to Be a Bumpy Night.

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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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Based in wonder and optimism, Nancy Giordano is an exponential strategist focused on building a safe, inclusive, thriving future. Believing we have a once in a generation opportunity to rethink, reimagine and reshape every industry and social construct we call life, she supports and champions those actively architecting bold solutions and guides the visionary leaders eager to meet this call. An active strategist working on horizon solutions, Nancy is eager to share her insights on emerging technologies and shifting cultural expectations in ways that get everyone deeply motivated by the possibilities…and confident to start building.

This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. 

• Life hack - make up your job
• Job is labeled or defined
• Can’t use a map anymore, so we need a compass - What does the future need and expect, and what am I in a unique position to create and contribute
• Compass allows you to sense and respond
• purpose and intention
• lenses to the future - personal, community, society
• expectations and opportunities as a member of the community
• Watched the movie “Her”
• It didn’t come out of nowhere
• Speech that can be fabricated See Episode 537
• History teachers may be best prepared.
• Literacies
• Dreams and the role they play in our psychological well-being
• Joined an AI startup 8 years ago.
• Humanity Bill of Rights
• How do we build better decision-making framing
• David Ogilvy - give me the freedom of a tightly defined strategy.
• We can all agree on these 10–12 things
• SAMR Model
• The more students have to go outside the system for what they think is important the less the value is that degree.
• It’s a tool that helps us
• What are the use cases for AI?
• Responsible AI institute
• Scale the conversation around ethics
• Algorithm and data
• Huge structural changes
• Teachers who have it are that much more impactful and great.
• Part of the reason we have a mental health crisis is that kids don’t feel totally prepared for the future.
• Gravitate towards those who are preparing us well.
• SWOT Analysis - RIFF Map - Relieved, inspired, frustrated, Fearful
• Things you’re frightened by
• Head to nancygiordano.com and check out the book LEADERing.

Summer of AI - learn all about AI in a safe, supportive community focused on school leaders and applications of AI to school environments - aileader.info

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI series presented by AILeader.info. AILeader.info makes the abstract actionable by helping you stay on the cutting edge with 3-minute masterclasses that teach you what you need to know about AI in just 3 minutes or less. To join, go to AILeader.info

• Got key people to be successful. 
• Curriculum alignment 
• Instructional rigor 
• advanced models for schools 
• Teacher Planning - is the source of what teachers are doing. 
• Is ChatGPT the best for lesson planning? 
• More advanced models exist. 
• Machine Learning will actually remember the moves and methods of a teacher. 
• Almost like having a coach built into your model. 
• Bard with Google 
• ASU+GSV conference
• FineTune - If you’re serious, you need better language models. 
• Provides references to everything that it creates. 
• School districts can go in with more confidence because there is less bias. 
• AI is going to be the path. 
• Dual challenge for school districts - figure out a policy on AI 
• Don’t worry about AI taking your job, worry about the person who knows AI taking your job. 
• You can control AI and put parameters around it. 
• Intervention plans for students at the completion of a lesson. 
• The human element goes into what are the rules you’re telling the AI to do. 
• Make a strategic plan to get AI out there in a sensible way. 
• AI models in SEL 
• 90% of the time 
• Teaching people how to be good prompt engineers 
• Explain it to me like you’re a consultant. 
• Jasper for Copywriting
• Machine Learning - it learns what you’re looking for. 
• Mazy pulls from four different types of sources 
• How to be careful about what you adopt. 
• How this should be impacting teaching and learning. 
• People are thinking that kids are cheating. 
• Aligning to the 21st century world of work. Global achievement gap. 
• What are the skills kids are going to need? 
• Kids need the assistance of a teacher when they are stuck. 
• Why wouldn’t we have AI take the place of teachers if the AI can do it better? 
• What is a teacher going to be in the future? 
• We had a chance to make a real impact 
• Just design a great lesson. 

- #1 thing that catches kids up 3 years in 1 year - is feedback.
- Ego-involved feedback vs. task-involved feedback.
- Data’s getting stale - 48 hours
- How to make sure teachers have time to do what they need.
- Lead180.com
- educompass.app

About Scott Neil

Dr. Scott Neil is a nationally recognized expert in the area of school turnaround with a focus on Data-Driven Instruction and instructional leadership. With a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and 20 years of school and district leadership experience in urban education, Scott has led the turnaround of five different urban schools in Florida over his 31-year career in education. Dr. Neil spent six years working as a national subject matter expert, training facilitator, and principal coach with the national nonprofit organization New Leaders, whose mission is to prepare educators to become transformational school principals across eleven cities within the United States. Scott founded LEAD180 in 2014 to help provide support to schools across the country in the area of instructional planning and the alignment to the Cognitive Rigor of College and Career Ready Standards.

Bringing a unique combination of deep experience as both a practitioner and researcher in the field of school leadership within high poverty school settings, Scott has trained and mentored over 400 principals, 400 emerging school leaders, and over 5,000 teachers over the course of his career.

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Dr. Tucker brings a unique perspective with a lifetime of learning experiences overseas and in the United States. Having grown up traveling back and forth between Africa and the United States he experienced a variety of learning environments. He credits his mom, his first homeschool teacher, teachers at an international school, and numerous Missouri educators for his decision to pursue a career in education. His experiences have influenced his commitment to designing learner-centered educational experiences.

He currently serves as the Superintendent of Liberty Public Schools. During his time in LPS, the District opened EPiC Elementary (2022 National Blue Ribbon School), partnered with industry to create Kansas City Tech Academy, established the UnSchool Challenge, and rolled out several micro schools including HMS by Design, EDGE, North Nation By Design, and Warren Hills Reimagined. These innovations evolved through a commitment to answering the question, “What does it mean to be learner-centered?” and always thinking about what lies at the edge of vision. In 2017 Liberty Public Schools was accepted into the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. League districts pioneer innovative learning and leadership practices that lead to improved outcomes for students and that help prepare them for learning for life.

Moving closer to the “edge of vision,” Dr. Tucker has led the LPS community in designing a Graduate Profile, establishing a Vivid Vision, development of an equity-centered strategic plan, and advanced Real World Learning networks across the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Dr. Tucker was identified as a “20 to Watch” educator for 2016–2017 by the National School Boards Association. In 2019, Dr. Tucker was named the 2019 Missouri Superintendent of the Year.

This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. 

• Understanding what we mean by Artificial intelligence and how rapidly it is evolving.
• How do we leverage our data in a better way?
• How might we leverage artificial intelligence
• Jobs that could be created vs jobs eliminated.
• It’s about how we do our jobs.
• It’s important to have our
• Leveraging group think and group feedback to get to the sentiment of
• Making qualitiative data quantifiable
• Interoperability of systems - Could AI help our systems communicate
• Word Clouds
• Valuable skill that could be lost? Did I really capture everything?
• Allowing people to get their hands dirty with the feedback.
• How do we make sure that people have the ability to live in both
• GIGO garbage in garbage out.
• Machine learning in the computer
• Don’t want to miss the critical thinking piece where they just take the CSV file without understanding how things are working.
• AI is not an emerging field,
• It’s accelerating. It’s probably worth recognizing we’re all learners.
• We’re fairly progressive
• Care for the present and enabling the future.
• At times we’re learning or leading.
• how does this fit into my content area or my grade level?
• ChatGPT
• How do I integrate this into my classwork?
• Is there any difference between a teacher using ChatGPT and and Teachers Pay Teachers
• OER district, using available-online curriculum.
• Really understand the validity of the resource
• Traditional Resource Adoption vs. OER resource adoption.
• Curricular teams have choice
• Professional development, how to navigate that.
• How teachers will look at educational resources and professional development
• Field trips for admin & teachers to learn from other industries.
• What do we learn from other industries?
• For what experiences is there no substitute?
• Starts with human elements, and then we slide in the academic areas.
• Engagement - how do we ensure that everyone is engaged? Improving 2 way communication and engagement opportunities.
• How to connect with Jeremy - LPS53.org, follow on jtucker.tm

OER expert - Jeannette Westfall -

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

In this episode, Jethro Jones introduces the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. All summer, we’ve got some great interviews scheduled to come out with believers, skeptics, and everyone in between all about AI.

See the APLUS framework here

Join the conversation by joining our Facebook group here

And, Jethro also shares the AILeader.info resource, a membership site to help you learn how to save time and energy by learning how to use AI most effectively as a school leader. Join here. 

Jethro also shares the APLUS framework for adopting AI in schools: 

1. Accessibility: Ensure that AI-driven educational tools and resources are accessible to all learners, regardless of their backgrounds, abilities, or disabilities. Design AI systems that accommodate diverse learning styles and provide inclusive learning experiences for all students.
2. Privacy and Ethics: Uphold strong ethical standards in the design, development, and deployment of AI technologies in education. Safeguard student privacy, ensuring transparent data collection and usage practices. Proactively address bias, fairness, and accountability concerns to maintain trust and protect the rights of learners.
3. Learner-centricity: Place learners at the center of AI integration in education. Prioritize their well-being, agency, and autonomy in the learning process. Promote critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills while using AI as a supportive tool rather than a replacement for human interaction and guidance. This means that we cannot implement tools that make teachers’ lives easier if it actually makes students’ lives worse! One of the things that I have been hearing a lot of lately is that adults want to use AI to help them do their jobs, but at the same time want to prevent students from using AI and start calling it plagiarism or academic dishonestly. OK for me, but not for thee, is a bad way to approach this new technology. 
4. Usability: Develop AI-based educational tools and platforms that are user-friendly and intuitive for both students and educators. Prioritize simplicity, clear interfaces, and streamlined experiences, enabling easy adoption and minimizing technical barriers for all stakeholders.
5. Sustainability: Consider the long-term impact and sustainability of AI integration in education. Embrace scalable and cost-effective solutions that benefit educational institutions and accommodate future advancements. Promote environmental sustainability by optimizing energy consumption and minimizing electronic waste.
   These principles, known as APLUS, emphasize the importance of privacy, ethics, and responsible data practices in AI integration in education. By prioritizing accessibility, learner-centricity, usability, and sustainability alongside privacy and ethics, we can create an educational environment that harnesses the power of AI while ensuring the well-being and rights of learners are protected.

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

This is a continuation of our coaching calls with Eric Makelky. Please check our previous episodes 532527523 519 514, 510, 506, and 501

In this episode, we talk about onboarding new staff. 

• What Eric has done that has been helpful.
• District duties and Principal duties.
• How do we make people stick around?
• New Teacher Academy - in-house teachers come in and model, share, and showcase practices from their classroom.
• In-house people leading these things.
• Half-day around the building - basic information.
• Make a list, and trickle in during the summer.
• And what do they really need to be ready for the first day of school?
• Resources, curriculum, plan, classroom management.
• Big Picture vs. Details.
• How do you do that?
• Trello Board about onboarding
• How do you avoid overwhelming them?
• Identify what is really valuable and what is extra
• Mentoring new teachers
• How do you not force mentoring on teachers?
• Collaborative teams within PLCs.
  1. Solid mentor
  2. Mentorship is done according to the needs of the mentee
  3. It’s about mentoring culture not just pedagogy.
• Have retired teachers come and be mentors when appropriate.

We’re proud 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

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Danny Bauer is a 

• Principal Development & Retention Expert
• Best Selling Author
• And Host of Two of the World’s Most Downloaded Podcasts
• As the Chief Ruckus Maker, he founded Better Leaders Better Schools in 2015.

In this episode, we talk about his new book and other various and random things. 

• Why an experimental mindset is so important.
• Deliver a result in as few words as possible
• Build Leadership Momentum
• Gift yourself a 3-hour deep work block
• Perfect principal entry plan
• John Unger - after I started this all the stress was gone.
• Should veteran school leaders still pick up this book?
• How to get out of your own head?
• Imagine worst-case scenarios.
• I’ve already imagined worse than this.
• What would it take for you to hold this with an open hand?
• Outcomes are never in your control, inputs are.
• 5 categories within the framework - start with the individual school leader, ruckus maker mindset tool.
• Everything else builds on top of each other and leads to
• Significant and legacy work is not found in operations.
• The mark you leave on a campus is found on the other parts besides
• Breaking up the entry plan to focus on significant time periods.
• Each campus is different and has unique needs.
• Take action
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