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Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

• How to make standards real.
• Begin in Elementary school
• 2 negatives to this
• 1. Grades go down in other classes!
• 1. Kids can get full of themselves.
• Pockets of teachers vs. teachers being innovative vs. principals being innovative.
• How to get leaders to buy in.
• We need to push out the awesome things that we are doing in our schools.
• Is 20% time enough time?
• Imagination, Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship.
• How to be a transformative principal? Go to people and say do something amazing.
• It gets worse before it gets better!

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Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

• Innovation class, teaching kids to innovate
• Daniel Pink’s innovation time Ted Talk.
• Pure Genius Book
• Why can’t my child have this class?
• 20% time for ourselves.
• How to think like a startup/entrepreneur.
• Mindset Course
• We like to complain about things.
• How do we change things?
• It is easier to complain than to do hard things.
• Collect and Connect
• ROTH IRA
• Deliberately take social media seriously.
• Rule of thirds (1/3 personal interest, 1/3 skill acquisition, 1/3 benefit to others)
• Innovation is an idea.

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Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

• Second phase - building capacity of teachers.
• Learning partnerships.
• We can’t learn when we don’t trust.
• How to quickly build trust through trust generators.
• Selective vulnerability.
• Social pain and physical pain are equal as far as the brain is concerned.
• Power of acknowledging students out in the community.
• Culturally responsive teaching isn’t about just relationships.
• We have the relationship so the teacher can push when the learning gets hard.
• 4 cultural learning tools.
• Understand there is a common thread through most cultures - collectivism.
• Individualism vs. Collectivism - figuring out a problem together.
• This is not a subject area you need to tackle, but something that you need to bring into the meeting.
• World cafe - strategy for teacher discussion.
• How to be a transformative principal? Facilitative leadership. How do you create an agenda that is equity focused?

 

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Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. You can find her on the web at Ready4rigor.com and on Twitter at @ready4rigor

• Culturally responsive teaching is seen as classroom management or one-off - both of these are wrong. It is really about learning.
• Dependent vs. Independent learners
• Brains aren’t any different, but the system is stacked against them.
• It’s about getting students to take control of their own learning.
• Once learning is relevant, then students can be engaged.
• Multi-cultural education vs. culturally responsive education.
• Where to start (Thanks to @feedurmind_read) in culturally responsive teaching.
• Leader to create the conversation to talk about our students.
• Counter-narratives - acknowledge the dominant narratives. Not about preaching from the leader.
• Trust undermines culturally responsive teaching.
• Here’s the three things we believe about our X students.
• What’s being said in the media about those students?
• Teachers are mirroring what they are seeing in the media.
• Starts with relational trust and creating counter-narratives.

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Dr. Stephen Sroka (Twitter grew up in poverty and is now an educator and keynote speaker. Be sure to check out his great YouTube page.

• Drugs and alcohol exposure to kids.
• Perceived risk of harm is minimized because of decriminalization.
• Addiction rate doubles when kids use marijuana and alcohol in high school or before.
• The reality is that you don’t know if it is a gateway drug.
• Marijuana is not good for the adolescent brain.
• If you get addicted to opiates in high school, you will likely relapse.
• Focus on coping skills to help them deal with life.
• Give kids options. What do you want to get high on?
• Trauma-informed strategies for students.
• Predictors of success: when every staff member learns every student’s name.
• If you don’t have relationships, kids won’t trust you and kids won’t do what you ask.
• What can we do to be a transformative Principal? Know kids by name. Honest, humor, hope. Look and Listen. Smile and Say Hi to everyone.

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