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Joel Lavin is the principal of River Road / El Camino Del Rio

• Teachers that put up welcome signs that were edgy.
• Opinion piece following the vandalism.
• Discussing racism head-on.
• Being inclusive not exclusive
• Equity committee that meets to discuss culture, morale, language barriers, etc.
• Support students that are not documented immigrants, but make sure that their rights are preserved.
• Students choose a topic they want to study, and ask the teacher to help them understand that culture’s values.
• How the mastermind benefits Joel.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get in a lot of steps to be out in your school!
• Dual Language Principal Katherine

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Joel Lavin is the principal of River Road / El Camino Del Rio

• Dual Language is much different.
• Studied science and Spanish in college.
• We as a nation are just starting to realize how important it is to speak another language.
• Broca’s area
• Families wanted to have their own language spoken in the school.
• Family resource center
• 2009 started as a dual language program
• There were reluctant dual language program.
• Change is hard.
• Some staff members left.
• Teachers are a major factor in school culture.
• Talking and being out in the community is really important to help with a big cultural change.
• Funds of knowledge community.
• Parents’ values reflect what they want their kids to learn.

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• Change school became a powerful space for people to have powerful conversations about school.
• Change school brings a level of transparency and honesty that is really powerful.
• Have an ongoing conversation with people who have similar ideas and understandings and have had experiences to make it possible.
• People feel trusted inside this community.
• It can be a difficult conversation about what modern learning should look like.
• Constant learning is fascinating.
• Tried to create some space for people to connect who don’t have room for that in their physical spaces.
• It is very dependent on whether people are school leaders or something else.
• The dark ages of change - leadership from the middle.
• People who can be influencers - parents, students,
• suddenly it’s not just about one teacher or one principal.
• How to get parent and student feedback.
• You often see yourself very isolated in a school.
• People are looking for direct prompts and cues
• So much of the educational conversation is led by journalists and politicians. We have to stop that.
• People respond with a blank look to a blank slate because they don’t have the practice at it.
• Modern Learners Lens
• Existing schools - best vehicle for communication is your students.
• We’ve conditioned kids to do what we say.
• The notion of setting expectations.
• If we’re going to shift the goalpost, we need to spend a lot of time talking to parents about the what and the why.
• TED Podcast
• Do we trust kids?
• Four areas that we have to think hard about - Modern Learners Lens
• Schools don’t know what they believe, they don’t articulate what they believe
• Understand how literacy is changing.
• Understand what is actually possible in schools now.
• Peter Senge
• Most change efforts are not grounded in those conversations.
• Modern Learner Community
• Change.school for more information
• How to be a transformative principal?
• Bruce: Engage more deeply in the spaces we already referred to.
• Will: Have a willingness to see if you are actually doing what you believe in your classrooms!

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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!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

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Rachael and John George Both principals in Oregon share their experiences of turning around schools.

• PreK involvement
• Trauma-informed practices
• Stronger voice for advocacy
• Building strong relationships.
• Can’t personalize learning unless you know about the kids!
• Different levels for leaders learning at their own pace.
• There needs to be customization because different people need different things.
• Culturally responsive teaching and Trauma
• How do people get involved?
• Contact someone and say you want to be involved.
• How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms and support teachers.

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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!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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Rachael and John George Both principals in Oregon share their experiences of turning around schools.

• The Three Amigos
• Sandy Green Elementary School - lowest 10% of the schools. Working with a well-known publisher on reading and writing, and it wasn’t going as well as they thought!
• Year 1 from 10%ile to 50%ile. Year 4 82%ile. With highest Free and Reduced lunch rate in the district.
• Honed in on systems and structures
• Full staff turnover in those four years.
• 3-4 year plan
  1. First thing you need to do is establish relationships.
  1. You’ve got to be the examiner of systems and structures.
• Identify holes in intervention and enrichment.
• Each building has its own issues.
• Three changes in the first year: 1. Slow 2. Integrated with content, but lost on the students 3. No engagement
• Students were passively sitting there, while the teacher was doing all the heavy lifting.
• Level of community involvement.
• Need to do different because we are teaching different students.
• How do we do different different?
• It’s supposed to be hard.
  1. Be the filter: teach to cause a positive result.
• Modified Danielson Rubric for evaluation. I can’t evaluate you in Domain 1 unless I see your lesson plans.
• You can’t be good with what you do without a game plan.
• Look at the standards and make them meaningful.
• New teachers out perform due to effective lesson plans.
• Need guidance and coaching and mentoring around lesson plans. Provides the opportunity for reflection in lesson plans and it makes them better as teachers.
• Lesson plans provide feedback on Professional Development - if we can’t see it reflected in lesson plans.
• Keeping your lesson plans to reflect on later.
• Planning formative assessment.
• CoTeach model - special education & ELL population
  1. Be in classrooms a lot.

 

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!

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

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