Transformative Principal

Jon Harper is the host of the My Bad Podcast on BAM Radio Network and an Assistant Principal. You can find him on Twitter at @jonharper70bd.

• Why Jon’s school calls their classrooms families.

• Meetings are meant to build trust, loves, and empathy.

• Activities with kids to build trust, show vulnerability.

• QTIP - Quit Taking it Personally

• Learn people’s stories.

• You can’t feel what they feel, but you have an understanding of who they are.

• Lead by example.

• How to be a transformative principal? Share some of your flaws with a teacher or a student.

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 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.

My Bad with Jon Harper Transformative Principal 169 Split at 18:55 when I ask, what are you most excited about at your school? 25:04 maybe edit out. The QTIP Strategy with Jon Harper Transformative Principal 170

Jon Harper is the host of the My Bad Podcast on BAM Radio Network and an Assistant Principal. You can find him on Twitter at @jonharper70bd.

• Why he started his podcast.

• The power of mistakes.

• Powerful episode with Maggie Bolado

• Strengths-based leadership

• Listen

• Treat people as people first and teachers second.

• Education is what we do, not who we are.

• Restorative Practices

• You might lose minutes in Math or ELA, but you gain learning in the social emotional area.

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.

Bringing a Calming Influence with Daniel Bauer Transformative Principal Special Who you are matters

Daniel Bauer is the host of the Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast, and a dear friend. He started his first year as building principal this last year and takes some time to reflect on what he has learned about it.

• Better Leadership Sprint with Daniel Bauer use the word transform! Or use the code Jethro for $30
• “You brought a calming influence to the campus.”
• Best gift ever. 3 year journal
• Who you are matters.
• The power of being self-aware.
• The Go Giver Leader
• The Morning Miracle
• Tips for bringing a calming influence.
• Don’t forget rule #6
• How to be a transformative principal? check out the Leadership Sprint and give mindfulness a chance. Download the Headspace app

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.

Scott Johns is a former high school CTE teacher, and now works for Education Elements, former educators and administrators who are passionate about education.

• Student Reflection and Ownership

• Students need to understand their role in their learning.

• The power of setting goals.

• Self-directed learning.

• Small structured choices.

• Integrated Digital Content

• Computers/tablets/screen time is not all this is.

• Lily pad, too much on one corner causes you to drop.

• Integrated digital content allows personalized learning to scale.

• Digital tools can increase ability to perform at higher levels.

• Newsela.com and achieve3000

• How to not meet just the needs of the middle.

• How to meet the needs of the high and low.

• How to be a transformative Principal? Design thinking process. Empathy. Get students’ input.

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.

Scott Johns is a former high school CTE teacher, and now works for Education Elements, former educators and administrators who are passionate about education.

• What education elements does.

• Personalized learning - what is it?

• Core Four

• Targeted Instruction - break down whole group instruction into smaller groups of students. Dynamic and purposeful groups of students.

• After 7–8 students in a group, results taper off.

• Challenges of targeted instruction.

• Presence of small groups does not necessarily equal targeted instruction.

• Data Driven Decisions - Data should inform instruction in the classroom.

• Allow teachers AND students to reflect on and work with the data.

• The problem with the question, “Why did you give me this grade?”

• Tight feedback loops.

• Standards-based grading. Can help with the process, but not the only way to do it.

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.

Joshua Spodek (Twitter, Web Site and Blog) is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., founder of Spodek Academy, and author of Leadership Step by Step (launching February 2017). Sign up for his webinar here

He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD (Singapore), the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel Prize winner. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents. He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees every day for six years and counting. He lives in Greenwich Village and blogs daily at www.joshuaspodek.com.

• Step-by-Step courses and Book.

• Iterations lead to higher quality.

• Grading by weight.

• Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.”

• Supporting STEM approaches.

• Theory vs. practice.

• How influence peoples’ behavior.

• All western philosophy is footnotes to Plato.

• What is a good life and how do I make mine better.

• Leadership Step By Step Book

• How to be a transformative Principal? Go to Educon and read Leadership Step by Step!

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.

Henry Gradillas, along with his co-author Jerry Jesness, has written a book that will challenge many common assumptions about public education. Henry served as the Principal of Garfield High School during the period depicted in the film “Stand and Deliver” about Jamie Escalante’s success’ and challenges. Henry is a well known Educator and Motivational Speaker.

In this book, Dr. Gradillas shares both his upbeat philosophy of education and the practical school management techniques that helped translate that philosophy into success for thousands of students over three decades. The books focuses on three areas that are key to the operation of an effective school: School Climate, instruction, and curriculum. It includes many references to the Garfield High School experience, as well as to other schools where Dr. Gradillas was principal.

• How to adjust
• Thebestschools.org prize
• Kids are so involved on other things.
• Teaching Spanish at 83!
• Using today’s technology
• How do you support great teachers, without other teachers wanting to cut their heads off?
• They told me it couldn’t be done.
• Why AP is so important?
• Why is it so difficult to implement dual credit for high schools and colleges still?
• Did not change one thing in the district policy, but interpreted to make it work.
• Stamp of Approval for “Gifted” students.
• How can we implement this in lower grades?
• Infusing Math through everything
• Teach it to students early enough that they would be interested in it!
• How to deal with the difficult things as they happen:
• Because you know you’re right!
• I am so glad that finally the principal is doing what principals should do!
• Give the kids the opportunity to say how their school is helping them.
• Mandated Algebra for every high school student.
• When you don’t give a class to a student because you don’t offer it, you start them out as adults in a negative.
• When you’re in command, Command! Or get out!
• How to be a transformative principal? Go into a faculty and staff meeting and say: We are working hard, and we have some problems. Give me one thing that I can do to help you and make your teaching more effective? Secondly, give me one thing that I can do in the long-term to help you be more effective? Third, give me something that will improve what your doing for next year? Then what can you do yourself to move this along.
• How Jethro increased attendance

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.

Joshua Spodek (Twitter, Web Site and Blog) is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., founder of Spodek Academy, and author of Leadership Step by Step (launching February 2017). Sign up for his webinar here

He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD (Singapore), the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel Prize winner. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents. He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees every day for six years and counting. He lives in Greenwich Village and blogs daily at www.joshuaspodek.com.

• Josh’s history

• Chris Lehmann, founder of Science Leadership Academy.

• educon

• How you learn is as important as what you learn

• Realized the lectures he prepared weren’t as effective as he wanted.

• KIBSD High School Team Challenge

• How his graduate level courses work.

• Don’t give lectures on leadership, give experiences to help people learn what they need to learn.

• Understanding yourself

• Leading yourself

• Understanding others

• Leading others

• Think of a project that has some deliverable that you care about the outcome, tell what success means.

• Three raisins exercise: eat the raisins completely mindfully.

• People know when you’re not paying attention.

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.

Adam Beauchamp (Twitter) is the principal at Waller Middle School in Edin OK.

• Rotations on Priority

• If a student has better reading skills, they will have a better time in class.

• 90 students that need reading support. 6 week study group.

• Have it flexible enough for kids to come and go.

• Were rotating every 2 days, and then ended up on 1 week.

• How to deal with detractors within the building.

• How to be a transformative principal? Don’t be the one with all the ideas, be the first follower.

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.

Adam Beauchamp (Twitter) is the principal at Waller Middle School in Edin OK.

• Interview on Principal Matters

Solution Tree PLC institutes for professional development.

• How to offer students on-time intervention.

• Don’t wait for next year.

• 30 minute time block.

• All school assembly

• google docs

• 1:1 this semester

• Teachers get to pick which kids they are working with.

• Small group, computer-based, and enrichment.

• How to change schedule mid-year

• Through the PLC process, we found ways to make sure we helped everyone

• Didn’t service the kids who were “getting it” in the beginning.

• 12 different options for kids who are on track.

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

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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.