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Schools are being forced to lie to their systems to get their information correct.

Adam Pisoni is a serial technology entrepreneur who is most notably known for being the co-founder and CTO of Yammer, the enterprise communications software that was bought by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012. He is considered a pioneer of the Enterprise Social Network (ESN) concept and a visionary in organizational design and management. After a short stint at Microsoft, Pisoni spent a year researching education in America and realized that master scheduling is a game changer for the future of K12 education. See Pisoni’s byline Why I started Abl in Student Voices.

ABL Schools

• Startups since 1995 and founded Yammer with David.
• K-12 education wasn’t that positive.
• Where you go to school matters.
• How did he know that scheduling was a problem.
• Progressive schools.
• Instead of asking what’s possible in schools, what prevents traditional schools from iterating.
• Teachers don’t have the power to make some changes.
• Where is the greatest lever for change?
• We find countless examples of district schools that are doing innovation.
• Schools are being forced to lie to their systems to get their information correct.
• Master scheduling.
• Launching in July at Principal’s conference
• Multiple steps that are disconnected.
• Abl brings them all together. Conflicts and coteaching scenarios are all in the same dynamic system.

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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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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• If you aren’t falling, you aren’t trying hard enough

• How to teach kids to be comfortable trying and failing

• We were surprised we did so well when we don’t prepare them for these big tests

• Kids’ interest in learning naturally grows as they do

• Kids need to understand that they come to school for themselves

• Dealing with misbehavior

• You normally need an audience to misbehave

• There is a reason for their misbehavior

• Challenges of education in Finland,

• Technology, collaboration, and presentation (social) skills.

• How to be a transformative Principal? Try a Skype break

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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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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You need to have imagination. You normally need an audience to misbehave

Pirjo Suhonen lives in Finland and recently finished her Master’s in Education.

• Preschool is up to 7 years old (only 4 hours per day, play rather than book learning)

• Play leads to more self-motivated learning

• Demanding a lot, but giving a lot

• Design Factory in Espol.

• Instead of just having a chat with someone in the coffee room only, you have open channels of Skype in other coffee rooms in other countries.

• If kids can teach coding, anyone can learn it!

• Pirjo’s MOOC

• Broad national curriculum.

• Core curriculum - 7 competencies

• Perseverance.

• Competencies give you the why you are in school.

• How to teach perseverance

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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* How to make certain that teacher leaders have support and training to be leaders.
* Instructional Leadership Team - sole focus, making sure that good instruction is happening in the school.
* How to identify instructional leaders in your school.
* [Innovator’s mindset MOOC](http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/6669)
* If someone is upset because you’re good, that’s not your problem.
* Experience doesn’t necessarily lead to instructional leadership.
* What we value in this school is instruction and instructional expertise.
* The role of the principal supervisor.
* Teams of principals visit a classroom and talk about the instruction that they saw.
* Asking parents about what they think about instruction.
* Adjusting instruction for teacher leaders.
* ESSA allows us to do creative things with the principals.
* Professional learning for administrators.
* How to enable teacher leaders to be successful.
* International models of education and how to allocate time for teachers.
* How to allocate time during the day.
* Maybe 180 minutes of reading time is not really necessary.
* How to be a transformative principal? Decide that you’re going to spend time every day in classrooms.

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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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Get rid of a culture of judgment and move toward a culture of improvement.

David Smith (Web site, Twitter) is the Leader Effectiveness Specialist for the Utah State Board of Education. He mentors and supports principals all over the state.

• 30 years in public schools. 10 as a teacher and 20 as a principal. ALPS, Principal in 3 different schools, Math Specialist for the state.
• Why he should have gotten a doctorate.
• Works with principals, superintendents, and HR directors in different district.
• Summative Evaluations
• Principals need to become coaches to teachers.
• If in a summative evaluation, a teacher is surprised, then the principal hasn’t done his job.
• Principals should not take the role of teacher coaches.
• Principal should be the lead learner or principal coach in the school.
• We get so caught up in administrivia and don’t focus on learning.
• A business manager vs. principal.
• Equitable division of leadership responsibilities.
• Ideal that the principal is the instructional leader.

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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