Have a Good Life

Adam Beauchamp (Twitter) is the principal at Waller Middle School in Edin OK.

Solution Tree PLC institutes for professional development.

• How to offer students on-time intervention.

• Don’t wait for next year.

• 30 minute time block.

• All school assembly

• google docs

• 1:1 this semester

• Teachers get to pick which kids they are working with.

• Small group, computer-based, and enrichment.

• How to change schedule mid-year

• Through the PLC process, we found ways to make sure we helped everyone

• Didn’t service the kids who were “getting it” in the beginning.

• 12 different options for kids who are on track.

 

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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Jessica Lahey (Twitter) is the author of “The Gift of Failure” and writes for The Atlantic and the New York Times, and other publications. Here are a bunch of other great books she recommends.

• Addressing effort

• Oversimplification of Carol Dweck’s work.

• Failure isn’t important, but what the person learns is important.

• Teach kids to be more patient with their own frustration.

• Make it Stick book

• Give honest feedback

• Feedback needs to be relevant

• Transparency and honesty with kids

• Goals are important

• Adapt by Tim Harford

• How to be a transformative Principal? Show respect for the growth your teachers are trying to make.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

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Jessica Lahey (Twitter) is the author of “The Gift of Failure” and writes for The Atlantic and the New York Times, and other publications. Here are a bunch of other great books she recommends.

• Drug and alcohol rehab teacher.

• The things that work for well-behaved kids are what is needed for kids that are really struggling.

• Autonomy and competence

• Connection is the most important part.

• Make what we’re teaching relevant to them.

• The role of touch in the classroom.

• The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

• Student questions that needed to be answered.

• False sense of investment in sports or activities.

• Malleable brains allow kids to learn quickly.

• Standards-based grading

• Formative until I put it in the gradebook.

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Join my group coaching program

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Karine Veldhoen, M. Ed. is the founder of Learn Forward and a creative force in education. She’s also the Chief Learning Officer at Willowstone Academy, the CEO/Founder of Niteo Africa, a former Education Consultant for Fresh Grade and a modern day pilgrim.

Learn Forward represents a lifetime of her professional study, action research, and meaning-making within the context of education. Driven by her passion for making a difference in the lives of others, Karine’s been exploring the most important journeys of children through serving as the Chief Learning Officer at Willowstone Academy for the last 10 years and as an educator for over 20 years.  In her talks about the transformation of education, she emphasizes the importance of cultivating a connection between school and home and uses the Table of Learning as a metaphor for where we can begin.   Twitter @Learn_forward

• What do children need universally?
• The need is endless. Human need is endless.
• Matching our greatest gift to fulfilling the human need.
• Refined self-care.
• Sustainability.
• Design a self-care plan.
• Using design-thinking process.
• Designing for thriving.
• Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly practices
• Success of morning routine depends on setting yourself up for success the night before.
• It’s not perfect, sometimes nights are rough.
• When it does work well, it is awesome.
• If you have a spouse, take time each
• Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
• GTD by David Allen.
• Review days on Friday.
• Review upcoming dates for the week on Friday.
• Teachers are doing the heroic work, leave on Friday and go home and rest.
• Empowering our team of teachers in their work is incredibly important.
• They need information and communication to do that well.
• Monthly routines reflect on what goals were achieved.
• The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran
• Michael Hyatt’s Free to Focus Course
• Visioning Retreat yearly with spouse - Nest Building for Parents
• How to be a Transformative Principal? WIN: do What’s Important Now!

Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life!

Join my group coaching program

 

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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