Transformative Principal

Michael Horn is the co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute and author of Blended and Disrupting Class.

• 4 year plan
• Look at it through a design process.
• What do we want that student experience to look like?
• Design process.
• What is the narrative arc for the school.
• Ask lots of questions to map back from the dream.
• Start as a leadership team.
• What would we like to be known for?
• Where are the innovators?
• Roadmap for how this scales throughout the entire school?
• You want the whole group together to be aware of the process.
• Understanding the tools of change is important.
• What is the “right“ leadership style?
• X axis agreement among team about how the world works.
• Y axis agreement among team about goals
• Use summer!
• Use creative configurations to give teachers back the time.
• Create space for professional learning during the school day.
• How to communicate to parents and the broader community what you’re doing.
• How to be a transformative principal? 1. Stories are what really move people. Focus on the stories. 2. Tell the teachers you’ll get their back when they do something.

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Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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

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Michael Horn is the co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute and author of Blended and Disrupting Class.

• Create educational options is to help kids find their potential.
• Personalize to meet the needs of every student.
• Organizations follow systems or processes that become engrained in cultures.
• You get really good at the thing you’ve been doing.
• We’re not going to see schools disappear.
• Disrupting class, not the whole system to start.
• If you want a system to change, you need a great leader.
• So many forces arrayed to shoot down the “new”.
• People are not being obstructionist because they’re bad people.
• They’re not stupid people, they’re people in stupid systems.
• We need a different system to match a new era.
• Leaders have to give very clear permission about what you are allowed to violate.
• “You’re allowed to do anything that doesn’t put kids in harm’s way.“
• Very aggressively and clearly document every policy at odds with what has been on the books.
• Competency-based learning
• Don’t force them out of their comfort zone.
• “The Dual Transformation” managing transformation A and B.
• Go slow to go fast.
• We don’t fully understand what everything will look like.
• Seeing teachers in other places can help them see how it works.
• Coalition of the willing.
• Couple years is a baseline.
• May not know all the details, but then you have a chance to celebrate
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Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Join my group coaching program

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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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.

Tell a student you are grateful for them. Tell a teacher you are grateful for them. 

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

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Lucas Miller is the author of Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything.

• Engineer, then neuroscience at UC Berkley.
• Moonwalking with Einstein - How to remember everything.
• Using brains more effectively and efficiently.
• New research holed up in labs across the country.
• Much is based on the foundation of memory.
• Memorized learning is just important as it has ever been.
• Research available for K-12 educators.
• Growth Mindset
• Brain is remarkably elastic.
• Classrooms were quiet, now they are active
• It’s one thing to be able to answer something on a test, it’s a different thing to be able to teach it to a classmate.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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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, host Jethro Jones is interviewed by his assistant principal Dr. Courtney Orr.

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1)Culture First! 2)Love of Learning—never stop! 3)Focus—be in the moment, where ever that is, 4)Seth Godin—rules 5)Personalize Learning…shrink the classroom 6)Podcasting…continues to inspire 7)DeVos…interview wishlist 8)Admin….moving away from putting out fires to being control of our time/priorities 9)Teachers…(DPink)mastery, autonomy, purpose 10)Parents…over communication 11)Students…individualized learning 12)Shift…moving away from playing school to meet student where they are at, help them chart their own path…follow their passions 13)How can we break the rules w/out getting into trouble…change the things we can 14)LITERACY IN EVERY CONTENT AREA. 15)Inspire Students 16)This week…getting control of your time…start with one task…make that a priority.

What I want to build at my school.

Thanks to @afewthingsworth for the show notes!

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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. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the ArtsCreativity, Inc.

• A work or a text to land on so that it wasn’t personal.
• Lots of work to come up with core values of Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Grading policies, attendance policies.
• Changes need to be based on evidence.
• Core values help us say no.
• Radical candor.
• Challenges in creating core values.
• Comfort in being comfortable.
• Disrupted status quo.
• Conversations that require a keen intellect to navigate.
• Awoke in our faculty a feeling of learning.
• Why Tuacahn? It’s through the uncertainty that you can drive to the question of why.
• Dropping a class because it doesn’t align to our core values.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Never stop learning. Go out of your box and seek learning.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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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. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the Arts

• First High School charter in the state of Utah - focused on the performing arts.
• Working to partner more with the Center for the Arts.
• Talking times - actors and actresses talking about their experience become actors and actresses.
• Professional actors asking, “How can we connect and teach classes?
• Compliance vs. deeper learning.
• Idea of moving past compliance and on task
• Idea of being joyful and passionate.
• When doing auditions can bring working professionals in to participate as well.
• Teachers are working outside of the classroom on their own careers to
• Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Trevor McKinsey - Dive into inquiry
• Math exists in Art, dance, etc.
• Middle is messy, but it is where the magic happens.
• Everything is not defined.
• Don’t give out rules and such. Ask kids what they are curious about.
• Be mean until December doesn’t really cut it anymore.
• Belief that education does need to change.
• Kids are excited to be here.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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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.

• Owning vs. leading
• Pushed change a little too fast.
• Get teachers to drive initiatives.
• Can’t own it. The teachers have to.
• Biggest change - using grades for compliance
• It takes a lot of time to have the conversations relating to grading.
• Using alternative ways of assessing kids.
• NASSP’s mission and goals as a national support organization.
• Non-profit boards are struggling to have members.
• Mentor told Dan he needed to join NASSP for the insurance.
• Have to change the member benefit.
• We need to be more than just insurance.
• Advocacy - need to have someone there to advocate for the needs of schools and principals.
• Opportunities for advancing leadership. McKinsey Management Program for School Leaders
• 19,000 members in NASSP. 100% of Rhode Island principals are involved in NASSP
• Grading and assessment is the biggest conversation.
• NASSP Conference in Chicago
• How to be a transformative principal? Expand your network and get out of the little silos that we are in.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Join my group coaching program

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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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.

NASSP President Dan Kelley talks about school change and the need for NASSP to have a real impact in principals’ lives.

• Special education background.
• President of NASSP.
• Archaic way of teaching
• The role of the school needs to change.
• 5:45 minutes.
• Schools can become hubs.
• Changing schools structurally and philosophically.
• Get caught up in test scores and ranking.
• Great alternative to AP tests - early enrollment rather than AP.
• How to tell the story of the school?
• Start with where the parents are.
• Facebook, Blog, twitter
• Easy to use
• Money following students

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Join my group coaching program

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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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.