Transformative Principal

  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 transforma

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 enforce

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 enforce

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. Take the Fall Listener Survey Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coa

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. Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach e

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   Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers

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 so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

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 so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

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 D

TOMORROW! The Transformative Leadership Summit launches. 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!   Rachel Yanof started the Phoenix Collegiate Academy with the express intent to get all the students to college. I hope you enjoy this interview, as I sure did. Set a huge goal so failure was not an option. The huge goal supported the day-to-day decisions. Pushed ourselves to see if we are on track. AP classes as freshman. Small School - individualized and small group instruction. Only inviting kids to Saturday school and after school who needed the specific skills. More time - 1 hour in school longer - if used well, can be a huge benefit for the students. NWEA MAP Assessment - research into college preparedness. 75th percentile is the goal. Saturday school - get as specific as possible while still managing

In just one week, the biggest and best leadership conference for educational leaders starts! Please join me to hear from over 30 experts in leadership and education as we set the stage for our best school year ever! CLICK HERE to sign up. Rachel Yanof started the Phoenix Collegiate Academy with the express intent to get all the students to college. I hope you enjoy this interview, as I sure did. First time I confronted the idea that kids could go to a college or not. Trusting the system could make it so the kids don’t get what they need. Building Excellent Schools 97% receiving free and reduced lunch. 90%+ minority Find families through being in their area Every parent has dreams for their child. Homework Overcommunicate Parents need to be involved in education, active participant. Mandatory parent orientation, come to us or we will come to you because it is that important that you are part of the team. Homework is assigned every night. Not a secret what is happening in school. Perseverance, respect, integri

JOIN the #1 online conference for Educational Leadership: Transformative Leadership Summit. Join now for free access to over 40 educational leaders expert interviews!   Assistant Principal Dr. Amy Fast explores the responsibility of our schools to focus on the mission, not the mandates.   Microbehaviors Google Forms 6–8 questions Created statements based on national student Gallup poll hopeful teachers care connection to one staff member have friends I feel like I matter have you ever experienced discrimination? Would you report something bad that happened? Big changes around professional development what we do in schools has a lot more to do with mindset rather than skill set Simple ideas are the most profound Exit slips from teachers were more personal approaches Changing teachers’ mindsets What’s best for students is what’s best for teachers Collaboration How to be a transformative Principal? Teachers need to feel like they matter and feel hopeful about their future. Give staff a voice and let them know o

Join the #1 online conference for educational leaders: Limited Free Admission - Transformative Leadership Summit  Assistant Principal Dr. Amy Fast explores the responsibility of our schools to focus on the mission, not the mandates. Educators are humanitarians at heart NCLB made me a better teacher, but it got warped Focus vs. tunnel vision Venn diagram of academic achievement, soft skills, and internal drive Need everyone in schools to bring their A game every single day! Need to measure every single circle What we test gets taught How do we measure that success? Soft skills - measured through observation, should be part of curriculum. Measuring motivation - identify the constructs of motivation: purpose, autonomy, choice, rigor Student survey via google forms Want to know more about you than just your test scores Staff didn’t know them as individuals. Non-anonymous survey. Coded the data Created a high flyer list of kids who didn’t have a high connection to the school. 100 kids who were the most disconnect

Yes, that Seth Godin! What an amazing opportunity to interview Seth on the podcast. He was so very generous with his time. I asked him questions like the following: How do you teach kids to connect the dots? Failure freezes. How do you make failing safe? Can everyone succeed being independent? How can the little guy compete with someone like Walmart? How do you help teachers not want to be competent anymore? How do you measure the experience? How do you know if has been successful? If we give kids the ability to dream, they’ll figure out the grammar and history the minute it helps them reach their dreams. Also, please be sure to sign up for the Transformative Leadership Summit to learn from some of the greatest minds in education today! How to make a ruckus in a highly bureaucratic, slow moving monstrosity that is education. Has anyone done something that others were delighted by? We’ve all been impacted by teachers who made a difference. It is a mistake to first look at gravity if you are a beginning runn

Scott Beebe is the founder of My Business on Purpose where he teaches business leaders to be be successful. He also teaches families how to create a family vision mission and value at Create a Family Vision. Standard Core Values - Respect, honesty, integrity, etc. What are your unique core values? Top 10 words that describe you well. Three, four, or five key words. You want people to ask you that question about what your core values means. Run every decision through the filtration of core values. Core values are the curbs on the side of the road to get to your destination. Transference of knowledge, Systems - Free the leader up to not be the technician anymore. Hub for communication for all of the stuff you’re doing. Weekly meeting. How to find time? Block off time to work on vision. Bring somebody in to walk you through the process. How to be a transformative Principal? 1. Block out time and ask what we will look like in 3–5 years. 2. Decide if you really want to do this, recognize that something will chang

Scott Beebe is the founder of My Business on Purpose where he teaches business leaders to be be successful. He also teaches families how to create a family vision mission and value at Create a Family Vision. Being a pastor is like being a leader anywhere else. We want to change their hearts. What are those things? Vision Story - Vision statement is pretty pointless. Vision story is what is exciting. It’s ok for people to not be into the vision. Hiring. Need to give them the vision. Not hiring on a whim. Shareholder letter from Jeff Bezos Mission Statement - Not some catchy thing that sounds good. Highlight key action words in vision story. The mission statement is what drives you to get out of bed. It is the vision story in summary. Unique to who you are. 15 words max, memorizable. What is unique about your school? Use that to your advantage. What do we want our family to look like in 5–10 years? That will affect what our school looks like. What do we want our students to look like 28 years from now? “We ex

In this episode this week, we are listening to some principals share their core values as a result of what they did as an activity as part of "The Principal 50" book club. I hope you enjoy it.      Loading… 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.   Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey   We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

Today I am honored to interview Kimberly Miles about our Mastermind Group. If you're interested in the Mastermind, please visit http://transformativeprincipal.org/mastermind to set up a call with me to join the mastermind. Narrow my focus to prioritize what I value and what is most Hold myself accountable Bounce ideas off like-colleagues Reflective Recommend it for those who are looking to refine your practice. Do your work at a more effective level. Narrow down to your priorities. Worth the time and money because I am investing in myself. We serve others so much, and this allows me to focus on improving myself, too! Not just about hard data, but also about soft data. Stories that students bring with them are just as relevant. Strengths finder and helps me Look at areas I could refine or enhance. Loading… 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 Tr

It's time to fill the Mastermind! I'm opening up some slots for the mastermind. Now's your chance to get in and experience what Terri has experienced. I can't wait for you to join! a href="https://calendly.com/jethro-jones/mastermind">So, click here to set up a call! Terri Walker is the Principal of Buckland School in Buckland Alaska. She is also a member of the transformative mastermind. Today, she shares her experience in the mastermind. Felt stagnant after 25 years in education, thought about retiring. Mastermind was breath of fresh air. Goals help you focus on things that matter. Ability to talk about what matters to us, and how we can work together to solve them. It does take some out of my income but it is worth it. This is something I need right now. I need the motivation and support of the mastermind. I would encourage anyone old or new to seek [this mastermind] group and it would be beneficial. If you’re thinking about joining the mastermind, click here to set up a call and let’s talk about gett

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 eve