Have a Good Life: It's the Mission with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 132

It's the Mission with Amy Fast Transformative Principal 132

Sunday, July 10, 2016 by jethrojones

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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