Being Joyful and Passion with Dr. Drew Williams Transformative Principal 198
Sunday, October 29, 2017 by jethrojones
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.
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