Joe Erpelding, principal of Design39Campus:

  • Promotion Designer class - students are creating promotion experience
  • 2 promoting classes in last two years
  • the trouble with leadership in traditional models.
  • Anyone who is interested in leadership gets to be part of Lead39.
  • Students create leadership
  • Experienceships energize
  • Life-ready
  • How do we cram it all in?
  • Covering the content vs experiencing the content.
  • Enduring Learning through creativity, knowledge, identity.
  • Design thinking process is an extension of the scientific method.
  • Empathy.
  • Was the learning really “felt”?
  • What does great teaching look like?
  • What does great learning look like?
  • MOUs to reshape the strict rules and regulations.
  • Extensive Hiring Process: disorienting for anyone coming here.
  • 4 step process - 1. e-tell 2. Design challenge with student 3. Typical interview 4. Performance task
  • Onboarding process - historical documents of where we hoped to be.
  • Balance between quicksand and concrete - how do you balance this?
  • Steve Farver: Radical LEAP
  • Competency-based learning - TK-8 - what is critical?
  • Critical components that need to be covered before kids are ready for the next step.
  • 1st graders collaborating
  • Sense of self leads you to be able to communicate effectively.
  • Learner centered lab school - can’t disconnect parents from the learning community.
  • FutureNOW conference - parents are invited to be learners.
  • How many tours are we giving to our current parents?
  • TK-8 Experience
  • Pain points - 100 kids leave
  • Problem with us - communication around what a student is learning.
  • What are we going to assess?
  • Send home a progress report twice yearly.
  • altschool learning platform.
  • Seesaw
  • students can showcase their progress against competencies.
  • What’s next instead of I’m done.
  • allowing students to have variety in how they communicate what they learn.
  • Giving kids access.
  • Personal connection to mathematics can take a deep dive into mathematics.
  • Daily morning collaboration 7:45-8:45
  • Gift that we’ve given is time. We overstructure things.
  • Still have the same time as their peers at other schools
  • How to be a transformative principal? 10% - what am I willing to stretch myself to do tomorrow? What do I want to see this time next year?

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