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Greg Goins is a former superintendent, principal, teacher and coach who is now the host of the Reimagine Schools Podcast

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• Reimagine Schools
• Twitter opened my eyes greatly.
• Find some life skills.
• Someone has dealt with a similar problem.
• School Leadership can be a very isolating profession.
• Have the courage to have some really difficult conversations.
• Ask why we are doing the things we are doing.
• Nothing wrong with starting slow
• When I was in school.
• Stop looking at kids as part of groups.
• Change is the most feared word in education, but we need to embrace it.
• Being highly innovative is a scary proposition for many people.
• How to implement change: We’re going to try something new and see how it goes.
• Henry Ford, “Those who have never made a mistake work for those who have.“
• Create a culture of Yes.
• How to be a transformative principal? Be a connected educator.
• Learn as much as you can.

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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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Jeremy Williams is the principal of Manor Hall International School in United Arab Emirates

• 600 students from 46 countries
• Bitcoin and blockchain
• Bitcoin made it speculation.
• At its core, it is a ledger. A record of transactions and accounts.
• Eliminate Higher ed from being the sole guarantor of credentials.
• Blockchain seeks to destroy intermediaries.
• Blockchain verifies information and can’t be hacked.
• Blockchain authenticated vs university degree.
• What it would look like in the K-12 system.
• If we had the ability for authentic assessments that were performance oriented and we attached blockchain credential instead of a grade. It’s not just about getting the A.
• How to know it is good enough.
• You can store as much as you want on the transaction.
• Tasks have to be structured in a way that are binary.
• Publicly declare purpose and passion.
• Tie to the credential where people could see the work.
• Assess where the viability would be for you.
• For the teacher who wants kids to be motivated intrinsically.
• You have to have a low barrier to entry.
• Upskilling people who are already working.
• Blockchain is not bitcoin.
• Technology is going to impact the future of jobs.
• Discerning passion and purpose vs. understanding what jobs are possible with that.
• Parents exposed her to a lot of things when she was younger.
• It’s our opportunity to expose kids to things to see what they like.
• Genius hour model.
• How to be a transformative principal? Spend time with yourself and figure out what it is that you love about the work you do. Help 1 kid learn about what they love.

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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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Claude Charron is a Teacher in Miami Florida and director of STEM program in Gulliver Florida. Claude@conradawards.org

• Empowering students to make change
• Sports has it right in being able to expose kids at a young age to become an athlete.
• Things that will not work.
• Keeping kids safe doesn’t inspire.
• Kids have to choose something they are interested in.
• Empathy is vital.
• When students are inspired by seeing someone challenged by something, they have a purpose for working hard.
• Designing something that matters is what inspires kids.
• How designing something that matters inspires kids.
• Getting kids to agree on something is an art.
• How do you get kids to engage and go down the path where they want to design something that matters.
• You do learn things through projects.
• Design process since 1997!
• What is the art?
• We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. How do you go from an idea to a working prototype?
• Google Sprint method. Book
• Modules that would help teachers.
• How to select a challenge.
• Visualize everything on a board.
• No Box Toolbox -
• Collaborate with someone visually.
• It’s our responsibility to engage kids
• If kids aren’t engaged it’s a personal failure on me as the teacher
• Shows that kids can each communicate in an effective way to give everyone a voice.
• Haven’t reinvented the process. The difference is they are not working in silos.
• Once you have the clarity within a team, you have the power to do what the team wants to do.
• How to be a transformative principal?
• Ask faculty, how can we work together in a way where we are going deeper with kids.

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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Jennifer Hogan is an assistant principal in Hoover, Alabama. Her web site is The Compelled Educator

• Rising Tide Radio Focused on women in ed leadership.
• Guide on the side for PD with her teachers
• School goals take the learning outside the classroom walls.
• First session wasn’t about the technology, but about gathering courage and thinking differently about how they thought of their classroom in the past.
• Jump-start ideas.
• Connect with an expert in their content areas.
• Walked around and listened is all Jennifer did.
• Decide on something, then figure out technology.
• Timeline
• Skype and blog with experts
• Connections with other classrooms.
• What is holding principals back from doing things this way.
• How do we want to go about doing that?
• Think of as many ideas as possible.
• Not many challenges.
• School has three goals for learning
• How to be a transformative principal? Get into classrooms.

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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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal