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Heather Staker is a former Mckenzie Consultant and coauthor of the book Blended Learning: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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• Questioning our own assumptions is a huge piece of opening up what learning can look like.
• Every child has their genius.
• There is value in finding the right path for each child.
• Some teachers can be great at different things.
• Allow teachers to specialize and micro credential.
• How to match kids up with the right kinds of teachers that really help them.
• Coming at the content in a variety of ways.
• Sustaining innovations allow us to serve our customer even better.
• Disruptive innovation completely changes the paradigm.
• Online learning - adults are not unlike children.
• When we are more engaged and active learners we are able to learn much better.
• Blended Learning Live seminars - not traditional sit and get instruction.
• Helps people learn in a different way.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Walk your building and note any instances that technology is replacing them, and then make sure you change the message.

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Heather Staker is a former Mckenzie Consultant and coauthor of the book Blended Learning: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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• Senior in High School as a state school board member
• Reasonable and balanced voice that represents the whole.
• Interested and well-versed in innovation
• Clayton Christensen Center for Disruptive Innovation
• It’s not just efficiency, it’s common sense to give kids information at their pace.
• Agency is so important.
• Disrupting Class
• Actin Academy program for core skills.
• 7 types of blended learning
• What challenges do we still face?
• Schools lead with 1:1 announcements.
• How to address 1:1 issues?
• Lead with a very clear plan for how they use online learning.
• District and vendor level must prevent teachers from having to be the tech wizard.
• Help teachers to reimagine their role.
• Factory model settings do not give teachers the opportunity to do increase the humanity that can be in our schools.
• Mentors and tutors for each child.
• Not getting to deep work?
• Station rotations can prevent this. Not every blended learning model is perfect.
• How to create higher performing classrooms in 7 moves.
• Younger ages, recommended 20 minutes max per day on screens.
• “Certain children“ aren’t capable, but every child can learn
• It’s the adults. We get in our own way.

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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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Amy Dujon is a Practice Leader at Learning Sciences International. Prior to joining the Learning Sciences team, Amy was the Director of Leadership Development at School District of Palm Beach County, FL, and principal of Acreage Pines Elementary School in Palm Beach, FL. Her current focus is on innovative school improvement through LSI’s Schools for Rigor initiative, where they embed within struggling schools to provide professional development and other long-term guidance to help schools achieve success.

• Through a partnership with Learning Sciences International, I changed instruction and skills at my school, and now I work with many leaders throughout the states.
• Main focus is a high school in Maryland, meeting weekly.
• Data cycles with teachers.
• I’m their lifeline.
• What stays the same and what is different in schools?
• Typical root causes.
• Instruction hasn’t really changed much in the last 100 years.
• Teacher is the gatekeeper of the learning.
• How to get kids to own their learning.
• Get teachers to identify learning targets and success criteria.
• Remove the teacher from the front of the classroom.
• Plan meaningful stops in their lesson.
• New leadership skills for principals.
• Second order change.
• Rewriting your script of a teacher.
• Teacher talks, take notes, do assignment.
• Selective abandonment
• Protection from initiative overload
• Push pull and nudge of change.
• The heavy lift for teachers is in planning.
• Strengthening core instruction and building capacity of my teachers was more important than focusing on Reader’s Workshop processes.
• Are we successful because of our instruction, or in spite of it?
• I’m going to give you permission to focus on other schools.
• Let the steam out so you can continue to function.
• Being able to help teachers see that your plate is core instruction.
• Shifted so much off my plate that wasn’t important.
• What are you noticing?
• Whisper coaching.
• How do you shift so much off your plate?
• Some things naturally shift of my plate because the students are cognitively engaged.
• How to be more proactive about what was happening in classrooms.
• Secretary can filter things out for you.
• School events.
• Started to empower support staff to use their gifts.
• Getting your secretary to chunk time for you.
• How to be a transformative principal? Be the lead learner on your campus.

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Meredith Allen, music educator and Iowa AEA instructional technology coordinator, and account manager for Soundtrap.

• Music is very powerful.
• Traditional music education.
• Giving kids an opportunity to expand on the seed in their head.
• Expand on the seed.
• Jon Churchville in Michigan.
• “Let’s make a song!“
• Guide kids by pulling out what is inside them.
• How to coach teachers - Don’t tell teachers to do something different.
• Students to take control of their learning.
• How to benefit from the kids compiling information.
• I was the teacher who did things the way I did them because that is how we did them for 50 years.
• Junk Funk
• Help teachers have that moment where they see the value.
• Be connected - I go on Twitter and there’s always somebody doing it better.
• SAMR - Using technology and getting to R.
• trudacot
• On Twitter, people often show what their doing and share the steps so that you can do too.
• I didn’t know what I was clicking and two minutes later, I was bawling.
• GarageBand and Google Docs had a baby, and it is called SoundTrap.
• Non music educators use the tool as well.
• Using it for group projects so kids can create it at home.
• Collaborate with students without being in the same space.
• Minnesota and Haiti connection.
• Collaboration all across the globe.
• How to be a transformative principal? Have great conversations with the best teachers!

 

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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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