Have a Good Life

 

Scott Ellis is the founder and CEO of Mastery Track, which is a software program to help teachers use mastery-based grading in their schools.

• Applied analytics at Hewlett Packard.
• Teacher mentoring programs.
• Blended and personalized learning for the last 7 or 8 years.
• What contribution could I make?
• Look at scale and what that might look like?
• How to use technology as the core process that everyone can access and use for learning.
• Making lots of progress on certain areas, but still having good access to the data is one area we are still struggling.
• Anything more than individual student data is too much data.
• Data wave is crashing across education.
• We need to be crystal clear about what data we need?
• What does the student know?
• So what might we do next?
• Which ways of learning work best for them?
• Blended learning is combining great teaching with technology.
• There is a new job description for teachers in the 21st Century.
• It used to be that the teacher was the source of information, and now there are lots of ways for students to learn. There are so many more tools in the teacher’s toolkit.
• We all know they know different things and are in different places. It’s extremely difficult to do differentiation in that system.
• Teachers know things that nobody else knows. They know the children in front of them. The role of those teachers is to know how to use the variety of tools at their disposal to help kids learn as much as possible.
• The children are at different places in their learning.
• New tech makes things possible in new ways.
• Station rotation models. Individuals and small groups is where the magic happens.
• Effective educational practices that are happening when the teacher is not imparting instruction.
• Start with a dashboard: Where are they now?
• Second step: What are the next steps?
• Third Step: What is our action plan?
• Run a two-week cycle, where kids are learning certain things.
• How to be a transformative principal? Enable students to move at their own pace: learn about what that means, and genuinely embrace it, or start asking the questions to make that happen.

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Alexis Gonzales-Black is a principal designer at IDEO.

• Holacracy - One kind of self-organization practice. Distribute authority into the hands of those that are doing the work.
• Series of circles that are self-running startups or businesses.
• Put the organization’s purpose above your own ego.
• Shift to Holacracy can be challenging.
• What are the self-advocacy skills that people need to be able to be successful?
• Where do you have influence over these structures?
• Managing ourselves in a really interactive way.
• We build stories around what might happen if we take a step out of our comfort zone.
• The story you tell yourself is so important. Storylines
• We’re never going to get it right!
• We are a flawed species and we need to give people the ability to try new things.
• Allow tension to happen. Tension is inevitable.
• Own your tension and be the one who is responsible for resolving that.
• My job as a self-manager is to deal with that.
• Our job title becomes a uniform we can’t take off, rather than being a value we bring to the school
• What do others expect of me?
• What do others need of me?
• What are some of the roles that I can offload to someone else?
• Role Marketplace - bring your roles to the marketplace and share the load!
• The workforce increasingly wants autonomy, mastery, and purpose
• Flexible approaches to budgeting and staff assignment.
• People points.
• It’s holding us back from experimenting, where we definitely need experimentation.
• How to be a transformative principal? Take one piece of yourself and offer it to someone else.

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The New School Rules with Anthony Kim Transformative Principal 244

Social Media: We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure.

Anthony Kim is the founder and CEO of Education Elements, a consulting company that helps districts meet the needs of their students. He is also the coauthor of “The New School Rules: 6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools“

• Focusing learning for adults on what your school specifically needs.
• Where the experiments came from.
• We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure.
• From “failing forward” to “safe enough to try”.
• It’s obvious when you see that things didn’t. Doing things how we have been doing them really facilitates
• First milestone - classes in school buildings, then factory model.
• Comparing currency to education.
• Starting private schools
• What you know, what you anticipate.
• If you’re bringing it up
• Meeting Agenda - Could be chaotic.
• Jethro’s Blog Post about WeWork’s ]http://www.jethrojones.com/blog/2018/5/17/an-elementary-school-just-acquired-a-startup
• Articulate what game you’re playing rather than arguing over it.
• People often don’t know how to construct the problem of practice.
• Brainstorming vs. decision making.
• People aren’t trained to work in ambiguous environments.
• leaders live in ambiguity. Teachers live in
• How to be a transformative principal? Internal monthly experiments in our company, nothing to do with our work, but trying to understand people’s habits. Meditation example. Finding something that will get people to take action.

 

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Design39Campus

Brief School Profile:

 At Design39Campus, learning experiences are designed with the individual learner in mind. As a collaborative community, we nurture creative confidence, practice design thinking, learn through inquiry, connect globally, use technology and real world tools, and promote the courage and growth mindset necessary to change the world.

Teachers are called “Learning Experience Designers"

 

Location:

17050 Del Sur Ridge Road

San Diego, CA 92127

(858) 676-6639

 

Why are we visiting this school?

 

Alignment with our vision for K12 Magnet

[x]Competency Based

[x]Blended Learning

[x]Diversity

[x]Public School

 

Resources and Links:

School Blog

School Web Site

 

Contact:

Joe Erpelding

jerpelding@powayusd.com

858-382-4356

 

Notes from Visit:

• Everything speaks titles, furniture, etc.
• Open spaces, very flexible  
• Choices in topic, process, product
• Director of innovation
• Teachers collaborating every single day.
• Team (principal and 5 teachers) working together to design the school for a whole year.
• TK - kindergarten for kids that are 5 before december 1 (½ day)
• MIMS - PE teachers. When and why were they brought in?
• Collaboration
• Everyone is a leader.
• Teachers are out of the room easily.
• No more meetings - facilitated learning opportunities.
• Carts for teachers, instead
• No ownership of rooms. Design the space as needed. Reset the space at the end of each day/week/unit.
• Students didn’t have any physical books, were put in the classroom.
• Working agreements for student behavior not school rules.
• Large classrooms, 60-65 kids, 2 teachers.
• Kids without passes, not asking to use the bathroom.
• Every piece of furniture has dual purposes.
• Name design39 39th school and want kids to wonder first and foremost.
• Design Studio for the adults.
• Learning Experience Designers - We light the way.
• Be cognizant of what works well for kids. Do it.
• Activity for K12 sessions: Define what different things mean.

Questions still to ask:

• Community agreements?
• Video about 1st graders collaborating.
• Clubs or activities
• Philosophy on homework?
• Literacy emphasis?
• Lottery process: 1st draw is to match free and reduced lunch. 2nd draw is to fill Special Education demographics. 3rd draw is for diversity. Fourth draw is to do everything.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Nancy Conrad is the founder of the Conrad Challenge, a global competition to help kids learn without limitations. How Listeners Can Learn More • Website: www.conradchallenge.org • Twitter: @ConradChallenge • Facebook: facebook.com/ConradChallenge • Youtube Channel (Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge)

Entry Timeline for 2018-19 Challenge: • Team Registration Open Online: Friday, August 24 • Team Registration Closes Online: Friday, October 19 • Investor Pitch Submission Deadline: Friday, November 2 • Finals: April 24-27, 2019, Kennedy Space Center

• We are looking for advisors and student teams to participate in the 6 Challenge Categories: ◦ Special Category: Smoke Free World, sponsored by Foundation for a Smoke Free World ◦ Special Category: Transforming Education Through Technology, sponsored by SMART Technologies ◦ Aerospace & Aviation ◦ Cyber-Technology & Security ◦ Energy & Environment ◦ Health & Nutrition

• No box thinking.
• This is social impact meets education meets global impact.
• Inspired by Google Design Sprint
• We are in a testocracy.
• Adapt our system to what we are doing in our knowledge-based economy.
• No box toolbox
• Teacher of the year award.
• Problems are negative, but challenges can be solved.
• Learning without limitations
• The goal is not to take a product to market, but to learn how to learn.
• Calculated risks that had a massive impact.
• Most of our education looks down a straw…but our world is globalized.
• Our students earn a GSD - Get Stuff Done.
• How to be a transformative principal? Passion - have it and use it!

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Matt Coleman, DEd, has worked at every level of the secondary education system. He has served as educational assistant, middle school teacher, high school teacher, high school assistant principal, middle school principal, high school principal, director of secondary education, and assistant superintendent. In his administrative roles, Matt supported significant change resulting in improved outcomes for all kids—with a positive, differential impact on students who have been historically underserved.

• Not for profit organization - research and consulting about making school work for all kids.
• Think about what it means to be successful.
• All kids are served well.
• Organizational theory - inflexion framework.
• School identity should inform
• Schools don’t have a consensus of outcomes that defines readiness.
• As Inflexion, we use the Four Keys (Think, Know, Act, and Go) developed by our founder, Dr. David Conley, as a critical driver in our work with schools. This framework represents a holistic vision for schools and systems to align with as well as a shared mental model for staff to anchor their understanding of readiness.
• Our instructional approaches don’t engender ownership.
• Some information is available only to the privileged few.
• AVID is one of the programs that helps give kids privilege.
• Must think holistically
• Schools that are working for all kids have a consensus of outcomes and clarity of identity.
• Life readiness maxims
• Map skills they have learned against “Think, Know, Act, Go“ (or 5 C’s, or 21st Century Skills)
• Identity is a concept of vision.
• Take a look at what you do, and making a system that serves ALL students.
• What are you doing to what end? How do the activities you’re doing link to “Think, Know, Act, Go”?
• Life Ready Maxims Nike has 11 maxims.
• Maxims - how to distill and communicate key ideas of your vision.
• “We are Valley”
• Structure should reflect identity.
• Being consistently inconsistent
• Question to ask in interviews. 2nd question: How would you define fair and how would you apply it to kids.
• Hiring practices should reflect core maxims.
• Articulate that you understand that your perspectives are different.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Schools cannot form identity if the principal doesn’t have an understanding of their own maxims.
• Identify 10-12 stakeholders and ask 3 questions: What do I (as the principal) value, what do I believe, how do I see the world? (And what about what I do reflects those things)
• If you don’t see consistency in maxims, you need to do your own development work.
• How do I help my staff develop that same maxim? Be consistently inconsistent around the function of the behavior.

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Dr. Clement served nine years as the superintendent of Flowing Wells School District in Tucson, Arizona. Following his retirement in 2013, Dr. Clement was appointed to the Ernest McFarland Citizen’s Chair in Education by the dean of the College of Education at Northern Arizona University. In this endowed, full-time faculty position, Dr. Clement is responsible for teaching and advocating for education throughout Arizona and the nation.

• Legendary Teacher Day: Sept 27, 2018 Sign up for this free event to recognize your amazing teachers! 4th Thursday in September - stop and think of that teacher, and contact them if you can!
• How did I get here?
• It wasn’t by chance.
• I got to this position because of a couple of great teachers.
• They never once verbally encouraged me to go into teaching, but they were modeling my career!
• What am I going to do now? Elevate the profession with my own resources and skills.
• Open resources
• Partnering with businesses is an opportunity to recognize and reward their school.
• Goal is that in 10 years that it is part of our culture.
• Three tenets of a legendary teacher: building relationships, engaging deeply with students, and creating high expectations.
• What’s the perfect teacher?
• Starts with relationships. Active participation - engagement - enrollment.
• how to be a transformative principal? Pick a class and substitute.

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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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