Transformative Principal

By Jethro JonesEducation Self-Improvement

Transformative Principal episodes

May 22, 2016Habits of Highly Effective Kids with Jonathon Wennstrom Transformative Principal 125
Livonia Michigan

Suburban district with 300 students, 16,000 in district Pre-K–4th. 5 years, 21 years in 14 years as a principal

@jon_wennstrom

sparkoflearning.blogspot.com teacher blog http://wennstromweekly.blogspot.com parent blog

PBIS rules are umbrella for 7 habits of highly effective kids.

Home grown project for 7 habits.

District is very invested in character education.

8 character traits for entire district.

Fundamental belief that character education is vital.

Empowering students rather than engaging them - George Couros

Not another thing on the plate, it is the plate.

Building fundamental skills: collaboration, perseverance, grit, skills that will serve them in any location, any job, or any group of people they are with.

Parent says “my child came home and my family needs to be more proactive.”

Move beyond the vocabulary, but our words do count.

What about parents being more responsible of teaching values and school teaching content?

Public Service Announcements. Hearing is great, but seeing is even more powerful.

PSAs are emailed out and other teachers create videos and share internally.

Student-led announcements. Scripted for students.

Quote of the week.

What book they are currently reading.

How to be a transformative principal? Read and connect!

Most of my best ideas were not my ideas!

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22 min
May 15, 2016School-Wide Meetings with Jonathon Wennstrom Transformative Principal 124
Livonia Michigan

Suburban district with 300 students, 16,000 in district Pre-K–4th. 5 years, 21 years in 14 years as a principal

@jon_wennstrom

sparkoflearning.blogspot.com teacher blog http://wennstromweekly.blogspot.com parent blog

PBIS school, 7 Habits of highly effective students, Positive phone calls, student led announcements, PSAs. Class Dojo, 23% ELLs Wall feature.

School-wide meetings.

PBIS school.

Monthly, student of the month meetings.

Stephen Covey’s 7 habits

3 to be pledge, respectful, responsible, safe

Poster contests for that

90–95% parent attendance rate for kids who are students of the month.

Weekly meeting.

Sunrise and sunset meetings.

Goal: build community

Sean Gallard #celebrateMonday meetings

Doesn’t a weekly meeting take away a lot of instructional time?

Increase time-on-task

Support staff who help K students get ready.

Videos for students, less than 3 minutes.

Perseverance,

Stephen Covey’s 7 habits for highly effective kids

Art teacher creates a canvas to help students showcase their work.

Importance of including parents.

Positive phone calls on a daily basis.

Class dojo process - classroom wall (like a Facebook wall).

Parent program for Love and Logic.

Process for parent phone calls.

66 day challenge

Youth making a difference

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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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22 min
May 08, 2016Participate Chats with Brad Spirrison Transformative Principal 123
Participate.com use it for chats–it works really well.

Check out this cool minute-long video about how it works. View a longer webinar about participate learning.

Everything in there is based on conversations that Brad has with users.

Chats are great, but how do you pay attention to everything that you learned from it?

Calendar of chats

Create collections from chats in the time period.

Create collections and share with others.

Schools and district hashtags can be involved in this as well to share their resources.

Participate as a social network.

How to be a transformative Principal: Have a growth mindset and empower everyone in your building.

@participatelearn [email protected] @spirrison

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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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28 min
May 01, 2016Design Thinking Process with Susie Wise Transformative Principal 122
This is part 2 of my interview with Susie Wise. Susie has had multiple incarnations at the d.school – teaching EX-Tools back in the trailer days, launching the K12 Lab in 2007 with the Nueva School Innovation Lab project, and jumpstarting Media Ops and Hootenanny design for the inauguration of Building 550 in 2008–2010. Back again in 2012 she is leading our efforts to support the movement bringing design thinking into K12 teaching and learning. Susie stumbled upon design thinking when she took a course with David Kelley in 2003 and the experience helped her make sense of the universe. Susie is motivated by the simple belief that humans are by nature designers. Recently a design strategist and innovation coach at Intuit, her practice centers on inspiring teams to use empathy to get to innovative outcomes. Susie has a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford’s School of Education and is a co-founder of Urban Montessori Charter School in Oakland. She lives there with her husband and daughter (yes, the one in the movie Babies).
Design thinking process
New way to seek opportunities and problem solve.
Traditional Analytic ways of thinking: see a problem, come up with ideas, do a lot of planning
Empathize first, to see what they could see. Ask questions, immersion. Understand the space in a human centered way.
Define the problem once you have empathy.
Once you have framed what you’re going after, ideate.
Ideation is about separating idea formation from selection. Yes and vs Yes but.
Prototype - make bite-sized change.
Test it out in small spaces to see if you are on the right track in a human-centered way.
Do it rapidly. How quickly could you prototype and test your ideas?
Mine the failures for learning.
Questions to ask after empathy experience: Ask Why 5 times.
It can be scary to ask Why.
It is about people.
Somebody pulls out or somebody pulls rank.
Let’s run those prototypes.
Bias towards action.
Practice on hacking things that are not in school. Hack something in life.
Breaking it down into the smallest possible size to get quick wins.
Take on more complex tasks.
How to be a transformative principal? 1. Shadow a student and 2. put yourself in a different position than you have been in.
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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.
25 min
April 24, 2016Shadowastudent with Susie Wise Transformative Principal 121
Susie Wise has had multiple incarnations at the d.school – teaching EX-Tools back in the trailer days, launching the K12 Lab in 2007 with the Nueva School Innovation Lab project, and jumpstarting Media Ops and Hootenanny design for the inauguration of Building 550 in 2008–2010. Back again in 2012 she is leading our efforts to support the movement bringing design thinking into K12 teaching and learning. Susie stumbled upon design thinking when she took a course with David Kelley in 2003 and the experience helped her make sense of the universe. Susie is motivated by the simple belief that humans are by nature designers. Recently a design strategist and innovation coach at Intuit, her practice centers on inspiring teams to use empathy to get to innovative outcomes. Susie has a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford’s School of Education and is a co-founder of Urban Montessori Charter School in Oakland. She lives there with her husband and daughter (yes, the one in the movie Babies).
Shadow a Student is a practice that is out there, but we wanted to make it a movement.
Original idea
Hack your school toward something deeper. Small scrappy experiment.
How can you hack to something that is important.
It’s not about a 3–5 year plan. It’s about something small.
Something you can do right away.
The big load that it takes to move from class to class.
Not enough processing space in the day.
Is the organization of the day really working for the kids?
Is there time for Social Emotional Learning?
Hacktivity mini course - bigger ideas from deeper learn.
Choose a big idea
Select a hack
Take Hack-tion
Jethro’s shadow experience
Attack advisory time.
every day for 5 or 10 days, you have a 3 minute conversation with that student.
All students on a board, everyone puts a dot by kids’ names that have good relationships.
Unwall your office.
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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.
29 min
April 17, 2016Saving Money with Smarter Scheduling with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 120
Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.
Save $10,000 on paper because of 1:1
Don’t hire substitutes
Expectation is that teachers post everything to Google Classroom when they are absent.
Subs are just babysitters
Time serving students rather than students serving time.
Redesign cafeteria to make it a modern space like a starbucks.
Supervision of students.
3 Core Values: Leave no trace, be responsible, use time wisely
Teach them personal responsibility.
You have to take on a growth mindset to make changes.
Students skipping a class still happens, but it has not increased, though the way to work with kids has helped.
Phase Balance - can’t have every class meet 3 days (Phase 3) a week or every class meet 4 (Phase 4) days a week.
Schools can come learn from PRHS. Conference in the summer.
Office of Innovation for Education Summit
1:1 school, is that a requirement? No.
No more textbooks.
Google Classroom
Schoology
How to be a transformative Principal: Be student centered. Constantly assessing how we are doing. Build a team around you. Take ownership and pride in everything you do. Become connected. Find balance. [email protected] @laffoon_jon
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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.
29 min
April 10, 2016Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119
Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.
Flex Mod schedule
Form of a block schedule. Certain classes that might meet 4 days a week or 3 days a week.
Videos explaining the schedule
Empower the teachers - get them out of their silos
The gray ILT times keep the classes from conflicting.
The schedule to look at
Independent learning time: with great power comes great responsibility.
Designing a PE unit based on their fitness goals.
210 clock minutes whether you meet 3 days or 4 days a week.
ILT time is class time.
Many teachers have flipped their classes.
60% of students each year were going to a 2 year or 4 year institution. Only 25–30% of students were staying in school.
SLT Structured Learning Time is some RTI time.
2000-student high school designed for the Flex Mod schedule.
Teachers don’t teach in the same rooms every day.
Teachers offices are moved to the big classrooms which have been converted to commons areas.
Rotating schedule made it so we didn’t have to build more classrooms.
River Bluff
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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.
24 min
April 03, 2016Ed Leadership Sims with Ken Spero Transformative Principal 118
Ken Spero of @edleadershipsim seeks to help leaders develop their decision-making ability by running simulations of realistic situations.
Experience is the best teacher
What simulations in a box look like.
Engage one’s own imagination
Experiences of those who go through it.
This is an experience to be able to talk about what you could do.
Valuable and engaging.
Stories engage people.
Running simulations as part of assistant principal training.
Analyze the thinking of your team.
Janice Case
Become a Patron
Focus is on critical thinking and judgment.
Experience can be about getting things wrong.
How he creates sims.
Alternate Reality (sims) vs. Alternative Reality (games).
How to be a transformative principal: what experience do you need to have to learn and grow?
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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.
29 min
March 27, 2016Saying Yes More than No with Glenn Robbins Transformative Principal 117
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Glenn Robbins (Twitter and Blog) is the 2016 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year.
Duties of digital principal of the year.
Things that were done to gain attention for this award.
Idea Street
Turtles in an aquarium in the school.
Digital Shop.
Design thinking.
NCMS Innovates blog
EdCamp Period. 5 days in a 45 minute period.
We want to create designers.
Using technology when appropriate.
Design thinking and deprogramming them.
The Extraordinaires Program
It’s saying yes more than no.
Responding to kids’ feedback.
How to be a transformative principal? Be connected digitally and in person.
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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.
24 min
March 20, 2016Innovation Incubator with Jason Markey Anita Huffman and Meaghan O'Neil Transformative Principal 116
Leyden East High School Principal Jason Markey, assistant principal Anita Huffman and principal-to-be-current-special-education-teacher Meaghan O’Neil join me to talk about the
Assistant principal for Student Services - The importance of a title
Breakfast with students to support the new students coming in.
ACCESS Program - extra 25 minutes for freshman to help them get acclimated.
Hand-schedule students with ACCESS teacher so they have a single adult to
Learning2breathe study time for students to focus on mindfulness.
Teaching the whole child.
“Yes, And” thinking.
Giving kids the time and space to be creative.
Innovation incubator.
Disengaging from PLCs to be in a new group focused on design thinking.
Design thinking
Trust and vulnerability is vital.
It is an unknown.
What can you do to be a transformative principal:
Work to empathize more with our students and teachers
[#shadowastudent](http://shadowastudent.org)
Have a PLN and connect with others to help reflect and continue to grow.
Step out of your comfort zone and learn and grow.
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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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Jethro Jones interviews instructional leaders from around the nation to learn and teach what it takes to become a transformative principal. Episodes address topics like Response to Intervention (RTI),…