Christopher is a principal at Whitman Hansen Regional High School.

  • Transitioning to a new high school.
  • A new position gives you the opportunity to reflect on where you want to go and who you want to go.
  • Sharing yourself first.
  • I’m not a student-centered principal!
  • I’m a staff-centered principal.
  • Build staff meetings around getting to know each other.
  • Building relationships
  • Every day, with some exceptions, I’m in classrooms giving feedback to teachers.
  • Out in front playing music with kids.
  • Using Voxer to give immediate feedback and face-to-face meetings.
  • Three simple questions: What’s working? What do I need to stop doing? What can I do to make your life better or easier?
  • Start by supporting, then you engage them, then you empower them.
  • A good leader is a servant leader.
  • A good leader becomes a better leader by making others more successful.
  • Clear the road for others.
  • Experience is so important and we have to fail to keep learning.
  • We don’t know how good we can be.
  • Every student leaving the high school with something in their pocket to prepare them for the next level.
  • Key components of S1 to raise failing grade to passing grade.
  • Empowering teachers to give kids hope and keep integrity of the grades.
  • Teachers choose most important units and then give kids an opportunity to make things happen.
  • 92% of the kids who did winter school passed the year-long course.
  • Summer Read Smackdown!
  • Interdisciplinary days - kids don’t come back to a test on the book.
  • How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms and give honest feedback to teachers so you can have a conversation with them.

 

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Mike Fisher author of Hacking Instructional Design. Shoutout to @elizabethfisher

  • All this stuff that is eating up teachers’ time to plan.
  • Easier to just purchase a program or a plan.
  • Shift focus to contemporary instructional design.
  • Why is it so hard to move away from
  • Decision paralysis. So many decisions to make that we don’t know what to do.
  • How well we need to design assessments.
  • Standards, resources, external assessments.
  • The What - standards
  • The How - activities
  • The How Well? - assessments.
  • Tripticks from AAA
  • Trying things out - gives you some freedom.
  • Being a lead learner is pushed aside to get things done.
  • Right-sizing the work. Allow students to be cocreators in instructional design.
  • Breaking the standard into manageable bits for teachers and for students.
  • Learning targets “standard statement“ with I can in front of it.
  • Help students have high level of mastery.
  • Kids do not care about your grades!
  • Let them be accountable to each other and accountable to the world.
  • How to be a transformative Principal? Invite conversation, collaboration. How do we remain loyal to the learner and learning?

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ASTE Keynote with Jethro Jones Transformative Principal 274


This is a keynote that I presented for the Alaska Society for Technology in Education Conference in February. Here is the link to the video of it. 


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Byron Darnall is the principal of Potter Gray Elementary School in Bowling Green Kentucky

  • Long term sustainable change is slow.
  • How do you improve something that is already successful?
  • Examine the student experience.
  • Who’s school is it?
  • As educators we tend to operate from the center.
  • Busyness is the disease of our time.
  • How are you? Busy! <-bothersome
  • “I would love to, but I’m too busy.“
  • Am I too busy to get better?
  • How to be less busy?
  • Every day shouldn’t lead to absolute exhaustion.
  • There is nothing easy about it, but we have to be open to finding someone we trust to give us good feedback about our time management
  • Systems thinking - not exposed to it as a teacher or
  • Centralize school-wide communication through a blog. If it matters, it is on the blog.
  • If it can’t be said in 1-2 sentences, it’s a conversation.
  • How to be a transformative principal? Talk to your students and ask them questions.

Schedule a call with Jethro

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!

Subscribe in iTunes

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