Have a Good Life: Balancing the law and doing whats right for kids with Robyn Bagley Transformative Principal 227

Balancing the law and doing whats right for kids with Robyn Bagley Transformative Principal 227

Sunday, May 20, 2018 by jethrojones

Robyn Bagley is a former principal of Career Path High. She is now consulting now and working with Heather Staker on a project for Acton Academy. She is also chair of Parents for Choice in Education, located in Utah. You can email her here

The power of Networking with so many other people
Operating at 30,000 feet vs ground floor.
Policy vs. working in schools
Giving parents and kids options to have more control over their learning.
Statewide online learning
You don’t really understand the challenges until you are in the trenches.
First opportunity writing a charter.
How desperate parents are for control and choice in their education.
So many hoops to jump through.
There’s a lot of silliness out there that takes away your focus on the kids.
Issues that exist on the ground floor.
Administrative and clerical work to satisfy reporting.
Having the information in the system.
Kids not required to be there, and balancing what the law required and what was good for kids.
When you start to run into problems, be vocal to your elected officials.
You can still give good things to kids even in the system.
It’s teachers and a principal who is the change agent
Top-down dictation makes it hard for people to innovate.
Sharing of ideas in a collaboration is necessary!

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