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Richard Kincaid Twitter is EcoRise’s Chief Innovation Officer and is the lead designer for project-based learning professional development program, which integrates sustainability & design thinking methodologies into the Buck Institute's PBL framework. Richard has extensive experienced in K-12 public education, as a former CTE director, campus leader, and teacher in Texas. Richard's linked in profile is here: Linkedin

• Ecorise.org is a non-profit that helps schools implement sustainable education.
• Richard’s educational background.
• Microgrants directly to students.
• Elementary literacy coaches, and K-12 curriculum director, and CTE director.
• Helping teachers not knowing the path to make that happen.
• Helping students focus on a challenge local to their community.
• Giving kids tools to focus on making change happen in their area.
• Project-based training program.
• PBL programs don’t sound very accessible. We want to be facilitators, but then daily life in the classroom is overpowering, and we can easily give up.
• 3-day program to design a standards-based project for their classroom.
• It’s ok to not feel comfortable with this approach.
• Deeply embedded support model.
• Make these projects feel real, because they are.
• Advice for reluctant learners.
• Maybe a single strong project over the course of a year.
• How to support teachers who are not naturals at project-based learning.
• Start with teachers that are eager to have this happen.
• Teachers aren’t resistant because it isn’t effective, but resistant because they don’t believe it will work.
• If there is a working model that your campus can see, the resistance will gradually reduce.
• Some teachers need a model to see that the support is there.
• Getting everyone in a room and talking about what PBL looks like.
• Worked in the district 6 months before we even begin the first training.
• Without that administrator support, any initiative will fail.
• Classrooms are laboratories.
• What basis am I using to reevaluate what I’m doing to make my practice better.
• Teach a protocol of precise feedback for process. Peer review model.
• Teaching people how to move forward, how to have honest conversations.

 

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Matt Miller is the Founder of School Spirit Vending.

Top 10 school fundraising ideas.

CASH! 4 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Fundraiser!

• Finding the right choice for school fundraising is challenging.
• schoolzonepodcast.com for the top fundraising ideas.
• School Spirit Vending - stickers placed in schools
• Different needs for school fundraising.
• checks come in monthly, varies based on how much school embraces program.
• Giving kids access.
• Doing the same thing they’ve always done.
• Why not tie it all together?
• Incentivize the teachers and students.
• Leadership opportunity.
• Matt’s passion project - stickers that have cardboard backing. Matt prints a comic series on the backing
• Marlin and Percy
• Inspire-a-kid providing additional inspiration for kids.
• Read-a-thon - Collect pledges for the amount of reading that they do.
• Scrip fundraising - affiliate relationships with local (and non-local) companies.
• get movin’ crew
• We Fund For You
• It’s important to be better educated.
• How to be a transformative principal? Do a better job of defining exactly what it is you want to accomplish in the upcoming semester. Don’t simply assign the PTA to fundraise, give better guidance.

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Pedro Noguera is a sociologist by training and is a professor at UCLA. Center For The Transformation Of Schools.

• Once we have trust and respect, we can start having hard conversations.
• You can only have conversations like that that don’t come off as judgment if you have trust.
• We should ask parents to do things for which they have adequate resources.
• How do we find the kids that need the most help.
• The challenge is getting to know each child.
• None of this is easy.
• Meets with each student every day.
• When kids are known, they behave differently.
• The sense of belonging is so essential to kids’ success.
• Forging relationships through extra activities.
• John’s Hopkins University Talent Development High School. Robert Belfants. Interest inventory to start kids.
• Age and class determines where they go.
• The model we have created does not allow us to meet the needs of children.
• Any kid who came in with a criminal record in the high school would get a mentor.
• First days of school community building days.
• It’s part of building strong sense of community.
• Human beings don’t do well in isolation.
• Relationships save lives.
• How to be a transformative Principal? To really focus in on the culture of their schools.
• Culture is about values, norms, how people are treated every day.
• Create a culture that affirms the importance of children.

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Pedro Noguera is a sociologist by training and is a professor at UCLA. Center For The Transformation Of Schools.

• Author of many books.
• If ideas are too abstract and we can’t address the practical needs of kids then academia is in trouble.
• Address both the academic and non-academic needs of kids.
• Equality vs. Equity.
• Equality is treating everyone the same.
• It makes no sense in education because we know all kids are different.
• Equity is about understanding differences. It is not about lowering the standards. Compensate for needs that kids that bring.
• Adjust how we do homework to meet the needs of kids that are in front of us.
• Don’t penalize kids because they don’t have the same circumstances as someone else.
• Many kids are relational learners and they will learn better with people they trust and care about.
• You start from the premise that we do best when we are in a community.
• The conditions for learning
• Community
• More likely to punish kids with the greatest needs.
• What sorts of things must we do to make edu equitable for kids.
• Build a partnership with the family.
• Partnership must be rooted in trust and respect in order for it to have success.
• Teachers get almost no training on how to work with parents, especially when parents are from a different
• We don’t want to judge anyone.
• What we want is empathy. It is not pity, it is not looking down on anyone. We don’t make excuses for them.
• When we act with empathy, we demonstrate that we care.
• How do we build empathy?
• “You know more about your child than I do. What can you tell me about your child that will help me teach him or her.”
• It is important to let the parent know that we are aware of their child.
• Parents want their child to be successful.
• It should Never be the case that the only time we talk with parents is when children are in trouble.

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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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