Have a Good Life: Serving Students Individual Needs with Michelle Snyder Transformative Principal 249

Serving Students Individual Needs with Michelle Snyder Transformative Principal 249

Sunday, October 21, 2018 by jethrojones

Michelle Snyder@mlsnyder92 Vista Visions academy

Students have set lab times so they come in for special events.
Students in a lab with 5 or six students
Whether or not they are required to do the labs is up for debate, but it is good for kids to have the experience.
What kinds of students are attracted to your school?
Their reasons vary, but they each have a very specific reason for coming.
If they hadn’t found us, they would have gone outside the district to a charter school
Big picture learning. Upstream collaborative.
Learning through interests (LTI) student internship program
Teaching skills for seeking out their own internship.
Parents often speaking for their kids and how do we help parents.
Takes a lot for parents to be able to step back when they
How to build for scale for this program.
Looking at things from a dollars and cents point of view.
We’re not the same system as a regular school, so we need to look at what’s actually happening to see what we need to do to help them.
Every Friday afternoon we have collaboration and PD.
Individual Student Support Spreadsheet to record notes of students.
Touchstone - morning meeting with staff to see how everyone is doing.
Always looking at other options for kids.
How to be a transformative principal? Ask questions of their staff and listen to their answers.

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