Have a Good Life: June 2018

Can Do U with Jeff Becker Transformative Principal 232

Sunday, June 24, 2018 by jethrojones

Can Do U with Jeff Becker Transformative Principal 232

Social Media: A vision is a filter you make decisions through.

Jeff Becker is a former motivational speaker who is now working on making a real impact on students he works with. Learn more at http://candou.us.

Motivational Speaker vs. Can Do U.
We help busy school leaders create the school they dream of.
Character education programs don’t really work.
Programs are incomplete - Pumps them up, but now what?
Work Sets with teachers that make it easy for teachers to do.
A vision is a filter you make decisions through.
Curriculum needs to speak “student.”
How to speak the same language as an adult.
Something powerful is going to happen when we can bridge the gap between generations.
How to figure out your own strength?
Once I founded out who I was much more excited to take that on!
Myers-briggs and DISC
Best part of CandoU.us is alumni retreat.
Strategic goal setting.
Empowering students to make their own strategic plan for the school.
Focus on Key Results Areas and look at the data.
Gaps, data driven SMART goals, interventions.
How to be a transformative leader? Walk slowly.
Education is the vehicle.

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Creating a Gradeless Math Classroom when grades are still required with Andrew Burnett Transformative Principal 231

Sunday, June 17, 2018 by jethrojones

Andrew Burnett is a veteran teacher of Math who took a few years to do research, and is back in the classroom making a big splash with going gradeless.

Study measuring the effect of immediate feedback and whether it helps kids learn. It does.
Change is hard.
How to help educators change.
Why Andrew made the change when he came back to the classroom.
Teachers going Gradeless.
Mathematical Mindsets by Jo Boaler
Student Self-assessments, engaging math.
Isn’t every kid going to say they deserve an A?
Show me what you can do - low stakes, no grade.
We spend a lot more time on student “show me what you can do’s“
Give specific details on what they did well and what they did not do well.
Not grading assignments, but giving feedback on learning.
No grades go on the papers.
They were no longer looking for a grade.
Evidence vs. completion
Seesaw online portfolio
Workload decreased in some areas and increased in other areas.
Worst-case scenario is I could go through all their work and give them a grade if I needed to.
Learning opportunity vs. homework.
Many of these grades had no indication of whether students understood the concepts!
Students complete learning opportunities on assistments.
Check-ins vs. Grade book accountability.
Why did I not learn this sooner?
Teachers say they have to have a minimum number of grades.
Need support around you.
Letter to parents.
Other barriers: fear of change.
It’s ok to wait for the new year to start.

Doesn’t this mean that kids never show anything because they aren’t getting a grade for it?

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Phlight Club with Amy McDonald Transformative Principal 230

Sunday, June 10, 2018 by jethrojones

Amy McDonald helps kids have a strong web of support

The goal is for youth to have a strong enough web that they can come back.
The Survey that kids take at Phlight Club. The other side of the report card.
It’s their score card - others don’t see it.
Youth get a kaleidoscope bar graph.
Focus Declaration - the kind of person that they want to be.
Start with the strongest.
Kids come to Phlight Club because it is fun.
The reason she stayed in this district is because of Phlight Club.
Different people come. Application process for kids to come.
How to get started. Brightwayslearning web site and send an email to get started.
People say these events are only for small balloons. But Jill said this is not just for “at-risk” kids.
Kids leave with their stack.

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Helping Kids have a Web of Support with Amy McDonald Transformative Principal 229

Sunday, June 3, 2018 by jethrojones

Amy McDonald helps kids have a strong web of support

Working with kids vs doing work for kids.
Developmental ecology of a youth
Strengths-based
Lots of training for teachers and youth.
Prince Wales Island in Alaska
Eat sleep and work in gyms.
70 kids and 20 adults. 3 day lock in events
Brightways Learning runs Phlight Club.
Descriptions of the ROYGBIV story from the link above.
Red – The Rule of Five: The foundation for a personal village for each youth by five caring adults (or more,) having high expectations and providing opportunities, teaching skills, and celebrating relative best in appropriate ways.
Orange – Tangible Strings: Measurable supports provided through the anchors that shape the home, school, and community environment of each youth.
Yellow – Intangible Strings: Important, yet difficult to measure, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are being taught to and caught by the youth.
Green – Resiliency/Growing the Balloon: These DNA based characteristics and talents that increase the likelihood that the youth will remain connected to any web that they are given. How are you smart rather than how smart are you? Grit optimism, how am I smart, gender, wonder gene.
Blue – Scissor Cuts/Problem Reduction: Decreasing or eliminating the conditions, actions, and attitudes that erode the supports being created by the adult anchors.
Indigo – Caring for the Carers: Supporting those who anchor the web so they do not drop out of their lives even when circumstances in their own lives change.
Violet – Social Norms: The climate and culture of the social environment (home, school, and/or community) that have been accepted or agreed upon by a critical number of adults.