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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 numbers.
• Does cost extra money - spend the resources to make the maximum impact on our students.
• We know we need to offer X, we have the means to offer Y.
• Governing board sponsors teacher appreciation each month.
• Finding other ways to show teachers you appreciate them.
• Videos of kids thanking their teachers.
• Pay-for-performance fund
• Is this scalable?
• Haven’t figured out the challenge of hiring on mission in a larger setting.
• How to be a transformative principal? Find that thing that you’re willing to live and die for and then tell everyone!

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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, integrity, discipline, endurance. PRIDE Report - Tracking positive and negative consequences at school.
• Parents come in every quarter for conferences. 100% participation in conferences.
• Flipped model in the high school.
• Communication-focus in lower grades.

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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 on a daily basis how much they matter. Let’s not fill their cups because they need to be there for kids, but because they are human.
• fastcranny@gmail.com @fastcranny

 

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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 disconnected.
• Hard to measure the intangibles? Just ask the kids!
• Measuring the right things

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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.

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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 runner.
• Brooke Jackson the Lab School NY
• Show up with a different agenda
• Already voted
• If this were easy, everyone would be doing it.
• Afraid of being called out by our hubris, getting in trouble with the bureaucracy.
• Going outside the box
• When we get true enrollment from the students.
• 10% where we can have non-factory time.
• What enrollment means.
• What did the student and parents sign up for?
• How to learn about Baseball
• The lesson plan
• What’s your attitude?
• Interesting is more important than right.
• Why memorize nothing?
• We don’t need people to memorize recipes.
• Sarah Kay poetry - no right answer for your poetry.
• Competence is overrated.
• Write books not read them.
• What if they don’t learn the grammar that way? That happens to people who don’t have sufficient dreams.
• Easy to retreat back to the safe place.
• Seeking reassurance.
• The only thing I’m trying to sell teachers is to challenge teachers to explore.
• How do we protect against failure?
• Why is doing more what we’ve doing any better?
• People want to do things that matter.
• People tend to feel cheated.
• Better to be a musician than an instrument player.
• It’s possible because we graduate kids who are better off.
• Stated goals are wrong.
• All schooling is home schooling. Schools must encourage and amplify the parents.
• Kids teach their parents about what matters today.
• Parents think the most important thing they can do is help kids be good at sports.
• Jim engages with kids, their graduation chance improves by a factor of five!
• How to be a transformative principal - recognize the heroes! Catch people doing something right
• How to help kids solve interesting problems in that system. 

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