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After a career in innovation, Ted Dintersmith is most well-known to educators as the executive producer of the movie, Most Likely to Succeed, coauthor of the book of the same, and the man who traveled all fifty states to see What Schools Could Be.

• How to change schools?
• Changing everything overnight - the sharp knives come out.
• Thoughtful, supportive resources at innovationplaylist.org
• Have your community define essential competencies for your kids.
• Look for success points in your school.
• Encourage the innovators to do things.
• Ask them to keep an open mind.
• Native villages
• Carving up a moose carcass.
• How to be a transformative principal? Spend some time with young kids and recognize that this is the fight we can take on. change happens slowly right up until it happens quick
• What do teachers have in common that do innovative things within the system?
• What are you seeing China?
• Deleted scenes about kids not having homework from Most Likely to Succeed - share that story.
• http://teddintersmith.com/innovation-playlist/ *

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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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After a career in innovation, Ted Dintersmith is most well-known to educators as the executive producer of the movie, Most Likely to Succeed, coauthor of the book of the same, and the man who traveled all fifty states to see What Schools Could Be.

• Education is the only antidote
• Machines are taking over so many jobs.
• Social media fueled technology is making it challenging to know what is real.
• What they could do vs. what they do.
• the people who get to the top of these bureaucratic systems are bureaucrats
• If we just focused on setting up the conditions for educators to do their best work.
• It’s time for us to be more like activists.
• What are you working on and why?
• The purpose of school is to rank kids.
• Why isn’t that the way we do it?
• New Hampshire portfolio assessment system.

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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Mia Pumo is a former teacher and math specialist and currently is the cofounder of Constructive Learning Design, which supports teachers and learners by making learning joyful.

• Partnering with community organizations.
• Schools often don’t know how to partner.
• Businesses don’t know how to join in the work with schools.
• Use coaching skills to build relationships.
• Learning is much more beneficial when they come together and make a real impact.
• Experiential learning - year long process developing a plan around a real issue.
• You never know what seeds have been planted through that experience.
• How to start the conversation.
• Focus on quality partnerships.
• How to be a transformative principal? Active listening to create a shared vision.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Mia Pumo is a former teacher and math specialist and currently is the cofounder of Constructive Learning Design, which supports teachers and learners by making learning joyful.

• Making learning joyful
• I was really starting to contemplate leaving the profession I love because the joy was not there.
• We believe that if we design and deliver powerful learning experiences for educators, they will design and deliver powerful learning experiences for students.
• Coaches can transform the learning and cultural experiences of a school.
• You can’t afford to not have coaches! There are many ways to incorporate coaching into a culture.
• Leaders with coaching skills are more effective and more impactful.
• Communication, active listening, developing a culture where coaching and feedback are part of the norm.
• Have leaders take on that coaching role as part of what they do.
• Developing culture falls on the leader.
• Set up protocols and structures to make that an enjoyable experience.
• Coaching cycles
• The best professional development is the teacher down the hall.
• Position coaching to the staff as a support, not another observation.
• Why is there a stigma related to coaching?

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Brittni Schroeder is the founder of Compassion Clubs, dedicated to the memory of her late son who passed away tragically at the age of 14.

• Started with a scholarship fund for students.
• Received hundreds of cards and letters from people who cared about Gage.
• The “Can Man”
• People wanted to be with our family.
• “We only suffer when we think about ourselves.” - Tony Robbins
• We have to serve. That’s how we heal.
• Gave kids pizzas and told them to sit with kids who didn’t have anyone sitting with them.
• Elementary and secondary curriculum.
• Secondary the kids lead it.
• Elementary is teacher/counselor/parent run.
• If they don’t know how to serve and think outside of themselves they are going to have a rough adult life.
• 12 different values: compassion, kindness, gratitude, charity, courage, etc.
• Teach about the value, share a story, then serve.
• Teenagers don’t seem to have coping skills.
• Nominate kids for scholarships and grants.
• My son’s legacy is compassion.
• Most successful club in Michigan.
• How to be a transformative principal? Look for those kids that need to belong.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal