Have a Good Life: How to Listen to Students with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 133

How to Listen to Students with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 133

Sunday, July 17, 2016 by jethrojones

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.
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