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Michael Horn is the co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute and author of Blended and Disrupting Class.

• Create educational options is to help kids find their potential.
• Personalize to meet the needs of every student.
• Organizations follow systems or processes that become engrained in cultures.
• You get really good at the thing you’ve been doing.
• We’re not going to see schools disappear.
• Disrupting class, not the whole system to start.
• If you want a system to change, you need a great leader.
• So many forces arrayed to shoot down the “new”.
• People are not being obstructionist because they’re bad people.
• They’re not stupid people, they’re people in stupid systems.
• We need a different system to match a new era.
• Leaders have to give very clear permission about what you are allowed to violate.
• “You’re allowed to do anything that doesn’t put kids in harm’s way.“
• Very aggressively and clearly document every policy at odds with what has been on the books.
• Competency-based learning
• Don’t force them out of their comfort zone.
• “The Dual Transformation” managing transformation A and B.
• Go slow to go fast.
• We don’t fully understand what everything will look like.
• Seeing teachers in other places can help them see how it works.
• Coalition of the willing.
• Couple years is a baseline.
• May not know all the details, but then you have a chance to celebrate
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Lucas Miller is the author of Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything.

• Engineer, then neuroscience at UC Berkley.
• Moonwalking with Einstein - How to remember everything.
• Using brains more effectively and efficiently.
• New research holed up in labs across the country.
• Much is based on the foundation of memory.
• Memorized learning is just important as it has ever been.
• Research available for K-12 educators.
• Growth Mindset
• Brain is remarkably elastic.
• Classrooms were quiet, now they are active
• It’s one thing to be able to answer something on a test, it’s a different thing to be able to teach it to a classmate.

 

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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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 ArtsCreativity, Inc.

• A work or a text to land on so that it wasn’t personal.
• Lots of work to come up with core values of Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work.
• Grading policies, attendance policies.
• Changes need to be based on evidence.
• Core values help us say no.
• Radical candor.
• Challenges in creating core values.
• Comfort in being comfortable.
• Disrupted status quo.
• Conversations that require a keen intellect to navigate.
• Awoke in our faculty a feeling of learning.
• Why Tuacahn? It’s through the uncertainty that you can drive to the question of why.
• Dropping a class because it doesn’t align to our core values.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Never stop learning. Go out of your box and seek learning.

 

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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