Transformative Principal

Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students and the trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. Visit Karen’s website at www.karengrosseducation.com.

• Name it - start by recognizing that it exists. What is traumatic for one may not be traumatic for another.
• Tame it - Strategies to deal with those. Invisible and it never goes away.
• Fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn.
• activities that activate the senses allows the brain to reset.
• Example of strategies - stand on one leg.
• All of the senses have activities that are tied to them.
• Frame it
• Gotta do something to activate the brain.
• Triphasic - disregulated, isolated, over regulated.
• long term strategies.
• Instead of blaming, seek to find what caused the behavior?
• Processing in place.
• Kimochis - https://www.kimochis.com
• Fidget boxes
• Play table.
• how to be a transformative principal? Assuming schools haven’t reopened - reach out to everyone and provide support.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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. Bryan Brockett is a principal of the Lancers in Carlsbad, CA.

• Principal experience in middle and high school.
• Are high school kids completely indifferent or focused or somewhere in between?
• You see transformation take place.
• Expecting conversation
• The more we treat students like they’re equally human like us, the more they’re going to join us.
• Campus supervisors really know the kids.
• A comprehensive high school should feel like an exciting place for learning.
• Model the approach, be explicit, look for opportunities.
• Honor the feedback of your students.
• Instead of a dress code, we established a dress culture.
• The more we cultivate that environment, the more we share it back with students.
• Soliciting input from students and teachers.
• Starting around what your vision is for your school!
• Some schools were well positioned to do that, others, not so much.
• Building a positive and supportive environment.
• Honor the work our teachers do to live out our vision.
• Instructional rounds formula - never found an effective way to get that process going.
• District mission, school vision, and culture committee (including students), Profile of a Lancer,
• Look for evidence of “Profile of a Lancer” in classroom observations.
• Feedback to teachers is vital.
• George Couros - make the positive so loud you can’t hear the negative.
• Be explicit about what you’re after, and reinforcing when you see it.
• So important to have students as part of the conversation.
• Gaps that students recognized.
• “I Matter”
• How to be a transformative principal? Be present!

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Tamara Fyke is the founder of Love in a Big World, which provides SEL support for families all over the world.

• SEL is related to their emotional, mental, and physical health.
• Kids may have experienced more trauma at home during closures than they ever have.
• Maslow before Blooms.
• The need that kids have is for connect.
• The pace of learning is different at home.
• We have to acknowledge what is most important.
• The system we’ve been using isn’t actually working.
• The learning council it’s time to let go of control
• Being a compass instead of a sage
• Self-awareness is knowing our strengths and weaknesses.
• What’s it like to have a deliverable that’s due at a certain time?
• How to be a transformative principal? Take a cue from youth culture - tiktok, instagram, YouTube, twitch, etc. What do we need to change to show that kids aren’t really lazy!

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Miguel Gonzalez is the founder of Embark education, a micro school embedded in two small businesses (pinwheel coffee and framework cycles)

Brian Sense is the Executive Director Great Work, Inc

Samara is a student at the Embark school.

• Microschools vs. traditional schools
• Blended grade levels.
• 16 students enrolled with 7th and 8th grade.
• Embark education is an independent school, which allows us to work with kids tuition free!
• Founding businesses and profit from businesses would fund the educational experience.
• Grants and fundraising.
• Kids can make business decisions that may not be in the best interest of the businesses.
• Price changes involved in the coffee shop.
• How do we pose it to our students,
• Samara’s interest in the espresso machine.
• Coffee machine does produce 85% of our drinks.
• Learning is a strong point for me.
• We don’t just focus on educational needs, but also on social emotional needs.
• What school is like?
• What structures do we want to have?
• Miguel’s job is supporting embark and the teachers.
• Making the impact on students is just as valuable as getting a bike back to a customer.
• When we break down the walls of school…
• Every role has a focus, but they also are involved in the other programs.
• We also include students in the interview process.
• Middle school students know who they want to work around.
• Middle schoolers is an important age to focus on the joy of learning.
• It’s never about the bikes or the coffee, it’s about student learning.
• Middle school is an overlooked time of development.
• Kids don’t drop out in high school, they drop out in middle school. They just sign the paperwork and leave in high School.
• Knowing where I want to center my learning.
• 6th grade interviews for new teacher.
• There’s very little that you learn in middle school that you don’t already have.
• How to be a transformative principal?
• Treat them as adults and support them in their youth.
• Give many people the ability to realize their self-worth and lead others.
• Listen humbly.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Lyn is a valued member of the mastermind. Tune in to hear her experiences for the last two years as a member. 

Join today at jethrojones.com/mastermind

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. Kulvarn Atwal has been a head teacher for 8 years, educator for 20. He is the Author of The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community

• Great variation in teachers who had good attitudes and wanted to improve.
• Interested in finding out how to help every teacher be excited to learn.
• Focusing our energies on teacher professional learning.
• The way you impact learning is by hiring amazing teachers.
• Implementing dynamic learning communities.
• Maximizing informal learning.
• What is informal learning.
• More learning takes place socially in an institution than formally.
• Every person is trained as a coach.
• Average teacher stops improving after their third year of teaching.
• Communities of Practice
• Getting better has to be part of the culture of the school.
• Expansive professional learning
• I’m not going to participate in any judgment or lesson observations.
• Engage in collaborative action research projects.
• Done this in three different schools.
• If their traditional role was to judge and now they need to coach, it’s very difficult to adjust.
• How to be a transformative principal? Empowerment of practitioners.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Jeremiah Newell founded Alabama’s first charter school, Accel Day and Evening Academy is Alabama’s first charter school. It serves grades 9–12 and specializes in supporting youth who are disengaged in the traditional high school, have fallen behind, or dropped out all together. I’d like to discuss how ACCEL’s model puts unique supports in place, including academic instruction targeted to the needs of youth, mental health/counseling supports, and postsecondary options to ensure opportunity youth find success.

• 300 students in grades 9–12
• How to manage split schedules.
• Be very intentional about who you’re serving when.
• regular day school and evening school.
• Working as partners with community leaders.
• Got graduation rate up, now how do we prep them?
• How to hire the right people.
• Mission alignment. We lead with being unapologetic with our mission.
• Create the space for them to do their best work.
• Half day Friday for students so teachers have time to get better.
• Teachers request professional development.
• As we recruit we allow people to meet with their future peers.
• Family environment helps recruit folks.
• Evening work is optional. Not allowed to work more than 2 nights per week.
• Young Adult model in NYC.
• Blended learning school. Teachers begin planning by identifying core standards.
• Utilize NWEA MAP data.
• whole group, small group, independent work.
• Grow 2–3 years in one semester because of how we teach.
• Instructional technology are tools to make that happen.
• We grow because we narrow our focus. We know where the gaps are and then carefully develop a learning plan that helps individual students.
• Intentional vertical articulation.
• Building the planning time matters so much. Half day every Friday enables time for teams to align what they’re doing.
• We don’t use grade levels, we use phases.
• Helping kids still earn credits.
• 3 phases, 5 classes per semester, 10 credits in year.
• Additional credit recovery outside of the school day.
• How to be a transformative principal? Assess the practices of the school. Think of yourself as a school designer, not a manager.
• I do have a responsibility to ask the question, What can I do differently?

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Emma Turner is the author of a new book called “Be More Toddler”

• Co head teacher in 2009.
• 5 babies in 5 years, multiple maternity leaves.
• Flip leadership and think about it differently.
• Chocolate buttons - What is it that means the most to you that you are going to hold on to no matter what?
• The Magic Weaving Business - passion, wisdom, righteous indignation
• Finding things you think are wrong help you see what needs to be right.
• Leadership is for the many not the few.
• Leadership doesn’t have a uniform.
• It was just us getting on with the work as it needed to get done.
• You can’t just have one kind of person leading.
• More people need to learn
• For some people, experience brings confidence.
• Leadership is a state of mind.
• The greatest thing a leader can do is develop an organization that can run in their absence as well.
• Leadership isn’t difficult - kids do it all the time.
• Toddlers’ evidence is everywhere.
• Toddlers lead all the time and they can’t speak or go to the bathroom.
• Moral buy-in - doing the right thing.
• Make your place people want to be - children have a huge emotional driver
• Clear plan for achievement - You know what’s best for that kid.
• If you get those three things right, everything else falls into place.
• How to be a transformative principal? See how you can have more adventures in school.

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Vijay Ravindran is the creator of Floreo, an app to help kids with Autism understand social interactions.

• Vijay’s son inspired the app.
• Combines iPhone with VR headset
• VR therapy.
• help in 2 ways. 1. Opportunities to create fun characters.
• Therapy can get patronizing and monotonous; we make it better.
• Don’t have a lot of practice in giving kids
• One of the fascinating things is that professionals use the scenes in ways that we haven’t predicted.
• Student who is afraid of going outside.
• Never seen child interact in traditional therapy.
• Big emphasis around research.
• Research partners Celebrate the Children, CHOP Center for Autism Research.
• Work on eye contact with students.
• NIH Fasttrack grant - helped fund groundbreaking research around Autism.
• What are the barriers you face?
• Helping families and professionals think about how you can schedule and integrate when they are already scheduled to the max.
• VR is still not commonplace.
• We carry the burden of being the first time adults and children experience VR.
• Support iPad via tele therapy sessions.
• floreotech.com for more information. Subscription plans for the software for homes and schools.
• How to be a transformative principal? Starting with understanding the unique situations that families are in right now. Start with the customer and work backwards.
• Knowing how much potential these kids have and knowing what’s possible if these

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

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.

Amber Dembowski (Twitter) is a principal of two elementary buildings and founder of emBOSSed Leadership.

Mindful leadership embedded within instructional leadership.

Amber’s podcast

• Worked in many different facets of education - from para professional to teacher to instructional coach to university to principal.
• Bringing staff together for professional learning opportunities
• Article

• 4 types of teachers: notables (top 20%), classics (40% of teachers, need development), interim amateurs (20% of teachers, not living up to potential right now because of…), sideliners (

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.