Have a Good Life: Changing the student experience through changing the student task with Jason Glass Transformative Principal 268

Changing the student experience through changing the student task with Jason Glass Transformative Principal 268

Sunday, March 3, 2019 by jethrojones

Jason Glass is the superintendent of Jeffco Public Schools

85,000 students on the west side of Denver, Colorado.
Lots of great people in the district.
Community is politically divided 1/3 democrats, 1/3 independent, 1/3 republican
When it comes to our kids, it should be an area where everyone can work together.
PBS Documentary about the Jeffco recall
Things that disturb the balance here get noticed
How do we prepare the students for the right future.
Green Mountain Youtube Video
Changing the student experience through changing the student task
Information is really easy to acquire.
Problem and project-based learning across the entire organization
Three categories of practitioners: those who have always taught in authentic: Allow those teachers to be influencers.
Second group is those who see the changes and are willing to engage but don’t know how: provide lots of opportunities for them to see what it looks like.
Third group: waiting to see if this is a fad.
How do you inspire your leadership to do these things as well?
This is simultaneously the easiest and most difficult change to make.
“This is exactly why I got into education”
Really hard because this is not a technical change
Much deeper and more meaningful change approach.
Have the changes really changed what students experience
how to be a transformative principal? Principals can support, encourage and help a teacher take a risk to create an authentic meaningful approach for a student.
@cojasonglass Jason.glass@jeffco.k12.co.us

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