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Piper is the principal of Draper Elementary in Draper, UT. She has been a long-time friend and mentor to me, personally, and has helped me learn so much over the last few years.

• ELA in English and Math in target language
• Teachers more intentional in working together on content between languages.
• MobyMax to supplement schoolwork. Reflex Math to focus on computation skills.
• What she’s doing is working because Draper Elementary ranked 22 in the state in math.
• How you ensure good instruction is taking place when you don’t speak the target language?
• Anyone should be able to understand topic in the classroom when they are in the target language.
• Good instruction on Steroids.
• 9 tenets of instruction from State of Utah
• Listen.

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Piper is the principal of Draper Elementary in Draper, UT. She has been a long-time friend and mentor to me, personally, and has helped me learn so much over the last few years.

• Dual immersion schools - what is the process, and what challenges are unique to you?
• 200 dual immersion schools in the state, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French
• What barriers are there to having native speakers come teach in America?
• A/B schedule at elementary level.
• Teachers come from mainland China and local areas.
• Immersion teacher and non-immersion teachers and culture issues.
• Personalizing issues with culture.
• Specials to integrate the two cultures.
• Dragon Training
• Seeking input to learn what was important to the students, faculty, and parents.
• Blanket monkey.

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Henry Turner is a fantastic principal doing some great things at Bedford High School outside Boston. He blogs at Leadingtolearn.

• Implementing iPad initiative.
• Focus on creating iPad content.
• Fundraising
• Upstander anti-bullying program. Facing History in Ourselves.
• Asking curious questions.
• Kids create public service announcements with their iPads.
• Achievement gap strategies.
• Data teams
• Putting kids in levels, but not tracking them.
• Conversations and district support.
• The Calculus Project.

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Henry Turner - Principal of Bedford High School outside Boston.

• Site visits is where the interview teams comes to the school to meet with the teams that work with the principal.
• Tips to prepare.
• Choose a diverse group of people.
• Avoid some pitfalls: lack of preparation, only asking rockstars.
• How to prepare people for the visit: Announce early to community.

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal