Tom Hoerr retired after leading the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri, for 34 years and is now the emeritus head of school. He teaches at the University of Missouri St. Louis and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis he has written four books more than 100 articles including the “Principal Connection” column in ASCD’s Educational Leadership.

  • 14 years principal connection column in Educational Leadership.
  • The principal job is so hard.
  • There’s always more to be done, no matter how good we do it.
  • Who you are is more important than what you know.
  • Prepare kids for success in life, not just success in school.
  • Been a principal long enough to see who kids became as adults
  • There are five qualities we need to develop in students: Empathy, Self-control, integrity, embracing diversity, and grit.
  • But how am I going to get my students’ kids to embrace this?
  • At back to school nights and parent meetings throughout the year.
  • 8:20: Write down the initials of people you know who you consider to be successful.
  • Turn to your neighbors in groups of three or four.
  • Remind parents of what is truly a success.
  • Strategy for focusing teachers on what we want them to pursue.
  • 3x5 card, write down the initials of 2 or 3 teachers you’ve had that are most important in your life. What did they do to make you love them?
  • What can you do with your class that will encourage your kids to put your name down in 30 or 40 years?

 

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<li>Transformative Leadership Summit 2018! Get your ticket <a href="http://transformativeleadershipsummit.com">here</a>! Tons of interviews! Our focus is empowerment.</li>
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Brad Shreffler is the host of Planning Period Podcast, Teacher, and Tech Coach in Orlando, Florida. He is also an author and his web site is here.

Thanks to our sponsor: candou.us/jethro

  • Planning period podcast - How do we fix problems?
  • What is the biggest problem facing education today?
  • Truly a challenge to answer, and many different answers.
  • Recognize that it could be better, but still work in what it is.
  • What teachers need in professional development.
  • Modeling.
  • Why is modeling so difficult for leaders of professional development?
  • Leaders haven’t been in the classroom for many years, so they are out of practice.
  • Different skill set to do the same strategies.
  • PD has become a dirty word.
  • The first time you do an innovative model, it will fail miserably.
  • Classroom management vs. engaging learners.
  • I refuse to lecture to my teachers about the importance of not lecturing to kids.
  • Flipped PD model - record what you need to tell them, then meet face-to-face.
  • “This is the next thing and it will be gone.”
  • Inherent resistance to new things.
  • Struggle through the challenge.
  • It didn’t work yet.
  • Crisp meetings
  • Stomach through the fear of failure.
  • Have an administrator who is willing to give the feedback.
  • You have to push for the feedback.
  • I just don’t take myself seriously enough to get offended.
  • How to teach someone to have an overinflated ego.
  • Build them up.
  • Education is fundamentally broken.
  • If people aren’t annoyed by what I’m doing, then I’m probably not doing something worthwhile.
  • How to be a transformative principal? Find the person who wants to change the world and give them the freedom to do it.

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal


 

Leslie Goodrum is the principal of General Tommy Franks Elementary in Midland, Texas. Her school is a pilot school for the Midland Values project, where they are attempting to improve their culture by adopting values based on authenticity, service, awareness, purpose, vision, enthusiasm, perseverance, courage, faith, focus, leadership, integrity. This is through Joe Tye’s Values Coach System

  • Brand new campus and so setting the culture from the beginning.
  • Crockett elementary - having accountability issues, so they were shut down.
  • It’s not the building that makes kids successful.
  • District wide initiative for adults, but General Tommy Franks Elementary is the first one doing it with kids as well.
  • Every morning doing announcements, self-empowerment pledge. Pickle pledge. Each student gets a bracelet for the value of the month.
  • Vision is the core value for January, so they try to pull it in everywhere.
  • Encouraging parents to attend trainings as well.
  • Pickle Pledge.
  • Authenticity is the first value and kids are using it all throughout the year. What is the thing you have done that is the authentic you?
  • Integrity - you’ve got to do the right thing, no matter who is watching.
  • Pickle Pledge - our pickles are happy pickles.
  • Did you say it or did you mean it?
  • Until you are ready to live it, you need to stop saying it.
  • The Values give you a framework each month.
  • Faith and purpose are needed conversations.
  • Foundation and a framework for helping kids set goals.
  • Parents are very supportive of what we are doing.
  • Discipline problems are very few.
  • Biggest challenge is making sure the value of the month is big throughout the month.
  • As the leader, I have to set the tone, because whatever I do, everyone will follow.
  • It’s not a program, it’s a way of life.
  • How to be a transformative principal? Get into your classrooms, be with your kids and teachers and be a great role model.

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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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal


Melissa Emler is the Director of Community at Modern Learning

  • Online media company to help schools change and be better. Really powerful conversations are happening regularly.

  • The Testing Emperor Finally has no Clothes

  • Modernlearners.com/jethro

  • All of the onus for learning is placed on the teacher.

  • It is the responsibility of teachers to create the conditions for learning to happen.

  • Communication beats compliance, every time.

  • Learning happens through feedback and questioning.

  • It is the student to communicate questions and understanding.

  • Going gradeless or standards based grading doesn’t really communicate learning.

  • We haven’t really had a conversation about what we mean by “learning”.

  • Seymour Sarason’s “What do you mean by learning?“

  • People are learning when they want to learn more.

  • It requires co-creating the curriculum

  • Our practices do not match our beliefs.

  • The amount of time we spend thinking, talking, planning for standardized tests.

  • Giving prizes for testing= :(

  • Beliefs must drive assessment.

  • Challenge assumptions, biases and orthodoxies that influence assessment practice.

  • Communication beats compliance, every time.

  • Explore status quo-busting assessment solutions to provide more authentic and real-world choices.

  • Let students learn about how they learn.

  • Measure what matters.

  • Invest in TRUST.

  • So important to trust teachers to create the conditions for learning to happen.

  • If we get to a common set of beliefs then we don’t need to pressure teachers to do well on a test.

  • Standards and tests change based on political issues.

  • how to be a transformative leader? Be strong in your individual beliefs.

Schedule a call with Jethro

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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal


 

Dr. Will Deyamport Instructional technologist, consultant, and podcaster.

Click here to learn how to be a social media ninja

  • Everyone has a brand. Jeff Bezos “Your personal brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.“
  • You can’t control what other people think about you, but you can control what people see when they search for you.
  • If someone googles you and they don’t see you, you don’t exist.
  • Creating content can enrich your current life and your future.
  • Twitter connects you in powerful ways.
  • It’s about the learning, and the network you can learn from.
  • It’s also about the building a network of people who know you and know what you can do.
  • How to do well on Twitter:
  • Upload a profile picture.
  • Know your why and your what for being on social media.
  • Be intentional with the people you follow.
  • Use your hashtags.
  • Share what’s going on in your world.
  • obvious to you, amazing to others
  • Don’t take it personally.
  • Don’t be afraid to unfollow.
  • Dr. Will does some courses as well, so you can get CEUs for your credits, lot of support for edtech issues.
  • We no longer live in a world with gatekeepers.
  • You don’t have to ask permission to do your thing.
  • How to be a transformative Principal? Let go of the small stuff.

Schedule a call with Jethro

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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal


 

Spike Cook is the principal at Lakeside Middle School in New Jersey. We are going to talk about Developing a leadership platform with Mindfulness, Gratitude, and Balance.

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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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal