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Safety. Connection. Learning. with Teri Barila Transformative Principal 177 You ain’t getting to learning until that student is regulated Building adult skills to support trauma-impacted youth with Teri Barila Transformative Principal 178 Resilience - #1 strategy attachment to a caring adult. Nurturance is reparative and restorative

Teri Barila is the Children’s Resilience Initiative Director.

• Toxic Stress impacts our brain development and architecture
• Brain developed to protect that individual.
• When you feel threatened, you go to that brain stem.
• How we look at behavior from a different lens.
• It’s not what’s wrong with this person
• What has this person experienced that I can manage to support him or her.
• Regulatory skills needed for kids.
• Body already understands that you are being threatened.
• Body shuts down all other functions to be supportive.
• Use the same response systems as a child.
• Understanding our brain architecture.
• Language centers are disconnected when they are in stress.
• Provide opportunities to calm down.
• You ain’t getting to learning until that student is regulated.
• We further escalate that response by sending the student out.
• When we recognize that behavior is a call for help, we will move from punishment to regulation.
• How to teach regulation to students.
• Teach them how their brain works.
• Don’t wait until they are in high school to teach self-regulation.
• Recognize, validate, and manage their feelings.
• Where are you as you’re walking into my classroom.
• What’s going on in your world?
• Mantras, other ways to regulate.
• It’s all about being present with the child.
• Noticing, naming, validating, managing their feelings.
• We forget to notice that kids are escalating.
• Rather than punishing a child for having a feeling…
• Do you have enough skills to manage the feelings
• What to do when they are escalated.
• When one is having trouble, we don’t alienate, we try to help.
• Welcome slip - “We’re glad you’re here. Welcome to school.”
• Safety. Connection. 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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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.

Aaron Walker is without question a veteran entrepreneur. Starting his first business at 18 and selling to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later demonstrates Aaron’s passion for succeeding. Unwilling to rest on past success Aaron started, bought and sold twelve successful companies over the past 38 years. Having a strong desire for personal development has kept Aaron in a weekly mastermind group for more than a decade with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham and seven other notable Nashvillians. Aaron has enjoyed a 37-year marriage with his beautiful wife, Robin. Today Aaron spends the majority of his time HELPING MEN GROW IN SUCCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE as President and Founder of VIEW FROM THE TOP, a premier life and business coaching resource. Aaron’s new book, View From The Top is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you to live a successful and significant life. Also, Aaron is the Co-Author of The Mastermind Blueprint endorsed by many including Seth Godin. Aaron has a vibrant history that guarantees to inspire you to reach heights you never dreamed possible.

• Aaron Walker
• Started working in a pawn shop at 13 years old.
• View from the Top book - June 20th.
• How people can live a successful and significant life.
• Ran over and killed a pedestrian.
• Giving away interviews and some other stuff.
• How to continue to grow and be better.
• Happiness is a choice, not a trait.
• Going from Poor to successful.
• Mom wouldn’t allow us to say can’t.
• Can’t couldn’t do it, but could did it all.
• Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.
• You either succeed, or you learn. Don’t fear failure.
• “You can’t do that.“ No, you mean you can’t do that!
• Great purpose makes it so nothing can hold us back.
• Teachers have a huge impact on students.
• I believe in you.
• It’s no different than any other profession, care.
• Neely’s Bend Middle Prep.
• Be authentic and genuine. The Power of Habit
• Fully Alive
• Do the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with and that will be your life.
• How bitterness stifles creativity.
• Balance is impossible.
• Prioritizing your priorities.

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.

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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.

Clare Fulp is the principal of an Chugach Optional and we talk today about her work running a summer school program for refugee students in Anchorage, Alaska.

• School designed for new-to-country students
• Director of ELL for Anchorage School District
• Qtel institute
• No walls or doors between the classrooms, project-based learning, little direct instruction.
• Open learning
• How to set up the culture of a school for the success in an open classroom.
• Soft skills taught to kids.
• Seth Godin, Let’s stop calling them soft skills.
• Changed approach from just ELL teachers getting the gig.
• How to hire the right people for this position.
• Each team member is bringing their own strength to this group.
• Looking for great passion.
• Positive attitude.
• Self, Social, City, State, World
• Most Likely to Succeed
• Working with current K-6 students. 230 kids total.
• How to deal with refugees: have an open heart.
• An interest in the world.
• Couldn’t think past a day as a refugee.
• Misconceptions about language
• Vigotsky Zone of Proximal Development
• Kids are so much better at learning languages than adults.
• Younger/Elder approach
• Goal is not testing, but SEL, Math, and Literacy.
• Community engagement with the process - Community block party
• Teaching kids how to take care of their teeth.
• How to be a transformative principal? Connect with kids, know their names, It’s all about relationships.

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.

The Board Report

The 34 initiatives: 

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.

Tom Braddock is the principal of Evergreen Elementary in Woodbury, New Jersey.

• How to teach alternatives to violence at elementary school
• Personal development course
• Amy Fast’s Tweet
• Engaging the community through two specific things:
• Barber Shop: discount on haircut for reading a book out loud while getting haircut
• Story in Philadelphia Inquirer - South Jersey school district hopes to create 'a buzz' about reading
• PRIDE Positivity, Respect, Integrity, Dependability, And Effort.
• Babies cry for, kids live for it, adults die for it - Recognition
• Standout student of the week with home visits
• 30 days without a tantrum.
• Sister of Dominique Moceanu
• 1. Lead with love
• 1. Build children’s (parent’s, teacher’s, community’s) belief in the school
• 1. Resurrect resilience
• We often forget what we’re capable of.
• How to be a transformative principal? Wake up in the morning and count your blessings. Protect yourself from negativity. [email protected] 8568530125 ext 142

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.

 All the Data. <- This is the board report I submitted to the Board that is referenced in the podcast. Enjoy! 

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.

Tom Braddock is the principal of Evergreen Elementary in Woodbury, New Jersey.

• Planning to go into politics, changed to education
• Alternative Routes to Education licensure.
• Alternatives to Violence
• School Without Walls
• World peace starts with me
• Me -> Community -> Country -> World
• What can I do on a daily basis to be more positive productive and peaceful?
• Nonviolent protests
• Practicality of the class
• World hunger simulation
• The Wave - Book about “the classroom experiment that went too far.“
• Ed Leadership Sims
• How to deal with negative aspects - build the support structure long beforehand.
• 4 simple classroom rules: 1. Keep it Disney 2. Be prepared 3. Be active 4. Be here
• You can’t teach them until you reach them.

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.

Buy Communication Cards

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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.

Red Rohl is a veteran elementary and middle school teacher who works to find ways to connect with kids via sketch noting and writing graphic novels. See his web site at http://heavysketches.com. Check out his Facebook page.

• How to help kids become part of your lesson.
• Jotting the ideas down quickly, but then adding more for effect.
• Importance of creativity.
• Not comparing to kids next to them.
• How to help kids get started with sketch noting.
• Start with lined paper and use it.
• Put a little more effort into the visuals.
• Reaching young men and boys and teaching them to be strong men.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen to the teachers. Let teachers’ lights shine through.

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.

Buy Communication Cards

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

Download Paperless Principal.  

Web Site

Transformative Principal on Stitcher

Refer A Principal

Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

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.