Have a Good Life

Dr. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the Arts

• First High School charter in the state of Utah - focused on the performing arts.
• Working to partner more with the Center for the Arts.
• Talking times - actors and actresses talking about their experience become actors and actresses.
• Professional actors asking, “How can we connect and teach classes?
• Compliance vs. deeper learning.
• Idea of moving past compliance and on task
• Idea of being joyful and passionate.
• When doing auditions can bring working professionals in to participate as well.
• Teachers are working outside of the classroom on their own careers to
• Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Trevor McKinsey - Dive into inquiry
• Math exists in Art, dance, etc.
• Middle is messy, but it is where the magic happens.
• Everything is not defined.
• Don’t give out rules and such. Ask kids what they are curious about.
• Be mean until December doesn’t really cut it anymore.
• Belief that education does need to change.
• Kids are excited to be here.

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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• Owning vs. leading
• Pushed change a little too fast.
• Get teachers to drive initiatives.
• Can’t own it. The teachers have to.
• Biggest change - using grades for compliance
• It takes a lot of time to have the conversations relating to grading.
• Using alternative ways of assessing kids.
• NASSP’s mission and goals as a national support organization.
• Non-profit boards are struggling to have members.
• Mentor told Dan he needed to join NASSP for the insurance.
• Have to change the member benefit.
• We need to be more than just insurance.
• Advocacy - need to have someone there to advocate for the needs of schools and principals.
• Opportunities for advancing leadership. McKinsey Management Program for School Leaders
• 19,000 members in NASSP. 100% of Rhode Island principals are involved in NASSP
• Grading and assessment is the biggest conversation.
• NASSP Conference in Chicago
• How to be a transformative principal? Expand your network and get out of the little silos that we are in.

 

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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NASSP President Dan Kelley talks about school change and the need for NASSP to have a real impact in principals’ lives.

• Special education background.
• President of NASSP.
• Archaic way of teaching
• The role of the school needs to change.
• 5:45 minutes.
• Schools can become hubs.
• Changing schools structurally and philosophically.
• Get caught up in test scores and ranking.
• Great alternative to AP tests - early enrollment rather than AP.
• How to tell the story of the school?
• Start with where the parents are.
• Facebook, Blog, twitter
• Easy to use
• Money following students

 

 

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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Justin Baeder, of the Principal Center

• As instructional leaders there is no better way to lead than to be in classrooms.

• It is tough to find time and make it into classrooms.

• Being in classrooms that much sounds ridiculous and impossible.

• Start small.

• Just show up.

* #everyclassroom challenge, be in every classroom within a 5-day period.
* Build up the practice over a period of cycles.
* Just keep track of the order you visit people in, and visit them
* Systems to keep track of visits.
* Write the date you visit on their note card.
* Repertoire - app for keeping track of visits.
* The way we schedule to get into our classrooms is important.
* The way of doing it must fit your style.
* Buy the Book: Now We’re Talking

Special Interview about writing a book. Get the interview here
* How long it took.
* What to get clear on.
* How to determine what belongs in this book and doesn’t.
* How to sell your idea to the readers and publishers.

 

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Prevailing, Not Relishing with Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter Transformative Principal 195

Proactive paranoia is good paranoia Call people to the carpet in a professional way.

Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter are the authors of Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank: How to Prevail When Others Want To See You Drown.

• How to prevail instead of getting bummed out.
• Depersonalize the situation.
• Some reason they have ego, fear, jealousy, etc.
• Didn’t start with you, started with someone or something else.
• Alignments - aligning to different people.
• How people gather allies.
• If you’ve got an army behind you.
• Moving on
• How to deal with politicking.
• Nonviolent communication
• Call people to the carpet in a professional way.
• 4 step process for nonviolent conversation.
• Script, rehearse, prepared for curveball reactions
• Said with care and patience.
• Don’t want to be alone without a witness.
• You’re not effective if you’re feeling this way.
• Teacher Bullies
• How to be a transformative principal? It comes down to being willing to do what is right.
• How to be a transformative principal? You’ve gotta try!

 

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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Proactive paranoia is good paranoia.

Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter are the authors of Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank: How to Prevail When Others Want To See You Drown.

• How to tell if you are being sabotaged.
• Proactive paranoia - inner voice where you know it is not right, but you
• It comes down to relationships.
• You notice the behavior changes.
• Exclusion.
• Emotional triggers that lead to tactics.
• Emotional driving forces - jealousy, skepticism, holding accountable.
• Leaving out information or leaving people out.
• What do we do when to handle it?
• Explicitly confront or leave it alone?

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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal