Transformative Principal

Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas. Purchase her book about life-practice learning here.

• Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging.

• How to deal with having learning goals posted when

• The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities.

• Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies.

• Three ways to think about grouping.

• Ability, interest, readiness

• Good group-workers and bad group-workers

• 3 people in a group is optimal.

• How to deal with friends in groups.

• How to be a transformative principal? Know why you want to do it.

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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.

Ginger Lewman is a keynoter and consultant in Kansas.

• The power of connecting with others

• Campaign Trail Collaboration

• These are the projects that we can do.

• Lessons for Life Practice Learning <-Amazon link ESSDACK Link

• What are the important elements of project-based learning?

• Questions to ask as you start doing PBL.

• Optimal Ambiguity - how to create an environment where kids want to make sense of their situation.

• Be OK with every kid not being exactly the same.

• Launch

• Groupings

• High expectations

• Presentation

• Preparing for PBL

• Launch - how to set up PBL to be engaging.

• How to deal with having learning goals posted when

• The essential question to ask when starting Project Based Learning activities.

• Culture of schools - we unintentionally group kids to create bullies.

• Three ways to think about grouping.

• Ability, interest, readiness

• Good group-workers and bad group-workers

• 3 people in a group is optimal.

• How to deal with friends in groups.

• How to be a transformative principal? Know why you want to do it.

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

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Sponsor: Sanebox

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.

Randy Sprick is an educational consultant and trainer in Eugene Oregon. He helps teachers, principals, and other staff set up schools that encourage student responsibility and motivation, and help students learn to behave in appropriate ways. He wrote the book CHAMPS and has lead numerous workshops, trainings, conferences, and much more.

• Safe and Civil Schools background

• CHAMPS

• Attendance ideas

• Top 3 musts for creating a safe school environment.

• Systematic and planful supervision of the entire school.

• If we don’t have enough adults in the halls, bullying is taking place.

• Why you want all staff present and interacting with kids.

• Presence of people in authority assists people in obeying the rules.

• Adults who are actively creating a positive school climate.

• The climate of the school is the daily behavior of the adults in the school.

• 5–10 adults who say hello to kids on the way to classroom.

• High expectations that are clearly communicated to kids and overtly taught and consistently enforced.

• Any infraction “please honor our school’s policy on ______”.

• Communication Cards

• Attributes of safe and unsafe school

• How to deal with toxic teachers?

• Messaging needs to come not just from administrators, but also teachers.

• The Checklist Manifesto - the book from which Randy’s reminders about doctor’s washing hands come.

• It is not the peer’s responsibility to call out their peers.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

• The Diffusion of Innovations

• Link for meeting peoples’ basic needs webinar

• Communication Cards

• What can a principal do to be a transformative principal? Be more visible.

• Safeandcivilschools.com

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

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Download Paperless Principal.  

Sponsor: Sanebox

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.

Randy Sprick is an educational consultant and trainer in Eugene Oregon. He helps teachers, principals, and other staff set up schools that encourage student responsibility and motivation, and help students learn to behave in appropriate ways. He wrote the book CHAMPS and has lead numerous workshops, trainings, conferences, and much more.

• Safe and Civil Schools background

• CHAMPS

• Attendance ideas

• Top 3 musts for creating a safe school environment.

• Systematic and planful supervision of the entire school.

• If we don’t have enough adults in the halls, bullying is taking place.

• Why you want all staff present and interacting with kids.

• Presence of people in authority assists people in obeying the rules.

• Adults who are actively creating a positive school climate.

• The climate of the school is the daily behavior of the adults in the school.

• 5–10 adults who say hello to kids on the way to classroom.

• High expectations that are clearly communicated to kids and overtly taught and consistently enforced.

• Any infraction “please honor our school’s policy on ______”.

• Communication Cards

• Attributes of safe and unsafe school

• How to deal with toxic teachers?

• Messaging needs to come not just from administrators, but also teachers.

• The Checklist Manifesto - the book from which Randy’s reminders about doctor’s washing hands come.

• It is not the peer’s responsibility to call out their peers.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

• The Diffusion of Innovations

• Link for meeting peoples’ basic needs webinar

• Communication Cards

• What can a principal do to be a transformative principal? Be more visible.

• Safeandcivilschools.com

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

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Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

Download Paperless Principal.  

Sponsor: Sanebox

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.

Mark Cheverton Twitter is an author, teacher, and physicist.

• Why self-publish.
• Building self-confidence.
• Easy to do and very cheap.
• How to be a better writer.
• How to not get in trouble for infringing on trademarks and copyright.
• Minecraft for Teachers
• Spilling Ink - how to write for kids.
• Wattpad - start publishing your writing.
• NaNoWriMo - Structure to the writing time.
• How to be a transformative principal: give kids a place to write about what they want to write about. Being the content expert makes it easier to write.

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

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Sponsor: Sanebox

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.

Mark Cheverton Twitter is an author, teacher, and physicist.

• Nerdy writing stuff.

• How to be an author.

• The process of writing a book.

• Story Engineering <-amazon link

• Scrivener

• Starting writing projects with Excel

• Different kinds of writers: Plotters and Pantsers

• 7 main scenes in a story

• Hook

• Plot point

• Pinch point

• Midpoint

• Pinch point

• Plot point

• Resolution

• How Mark came to write about Minecraft

• Why the books have some valuable message in them.

• What teachers can get from Mark’s web site.

• Stories that kids shared.

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

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Sponsor: Sanebox

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.

In this episode, I talk about how I ran building inservice.

Here are a couple links mentioned in this podcast.

Buy the Transformative Leadership Summit

Hacking Relevance with Dennis Sheerin

Happy People are More Magnetic with Michael Hyatt

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Sponsor: Sanebox

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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.

Today, I talk again with Jon Laffoon about the big changes you can make in a school and how to make them. 

This was part of the Transformative Leadership Summit, which if you didn't get, it's not too late. Over 40 amazing educational leaders came together to teach you how to be an awesome leader. The Summit is over, but you can still get access by buying the All Access Pass.

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.

Listen as I reflect on the Transformative Leadership Summit, which ends August 15, 2016. This is in my mastermind, which you can contact me about joining. 

It's not too late to catch some awesome videos. You can even get the All Access Pass.

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 the Live Q&A that Daniel and I did for the Transformative Leadership Summit this week. I hope you enjoy it. 

The Transformative Leadership Summit launched last Monday. Please, join me! Click HERE to register for Free Access to over 40 amazing education leaders who are ready to make your school the best ever! You don’t want to miss any of these amazing interviews. They’ll be online for 48 hours only! Get in here!

You can even get college credit for your participation in the Summit! 

Here's the schedule: 

08/01/2016 Monday: Launch party, Will Parker, Brad Gustafson - Expired 08/02/2016 Tuesday: Kimberly Miles, Jeff Zoul, and Daniel Bauer - Expired 08/03/2016 Wednesday: Kendra Washington-Bass, Kyle Palmer, Robert Dillon - Expired 08/04/2016 Thursday: Live Q&A, Jennifer Abrams, Jonathon Wennstrom - Expired 08/05/2016 Friday: Amy Fast, Jethro Jones, Glenn Robbins - Expired 08/06/2016 Saturday: Geri Parscale, Anne Beninghof, Mike Kelly 08/07/2016 Sunday: Bill Ziegler, Clayton Reedie, Vicki Davis 08/08/2016 Monday: Mary McMahon, Doug Timm, Mark Modesti 08/09/2016 Tuesday: Justin Baeder, Neil Gupta, Mike Anderson 08/10/2016 Wednesday: Don Wettrick, Emily Drake, Damon Hargraves 08/11/2016 Thursday: Jen Gonzalez, Eric Connor, Paul Erickson 08/12/2016 Friday: Rob Carroll and Stacey Keown, Erika Mortensen and Christina Lufrano and Rosa Isiah 08/13/2016 Saturday: LaVonna Roth, Marlena Gross-Taylor and a surprise guest! 08/14/2016 Sunday: John Linney, Sean Gaillard and one other surprise guest to close out the conference! 08/15/2016 Closing Keynote with Jethro and Daniel

This Summit is EPIC! Sign up today!

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.