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A Story about Fish with Danny Bauer and Dr. Kelly Crane Transformative Principal 302

Social media: All of us are better than any of us.

Danny Bauer and Kelly Crane are co-conspirators of Better Leaders Better Schools

• What do principals need to know about being a superintendent.
• Legal, politics, finance.
• Network.
• How to start acting as if.
• All of us are better than any of us.
• When you’re so close to the situation, it is really hard to see.
• Instructional leadership knowledge.
• Following through.
• Being authentic.
• Empathy when visiting
• Vulnerability.
• Radical listening.
• The mastermind is a sacred space.
• You gotta learn from the mistakes of others.
• How to be a transformative principal? Danny: Join a PLN! Kelly: be vulnerable when it is necessary. We don’t know it all and we have to reach out to others.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Adam Fachler has a proven process for planning amazing lessons. Take the 

• EMPOWER Method for planning amazing lessons.
• We are all searching!
• Little quality control

• Making inquiry method a little less messy.
• Envision - see the end in mind.
• Map - simplifies a complex process.
• Prime - prior knowledge, emotional aspect of learning
• Orient
• Walkthrough
• Explore
• Reflect
• Teachers’ time to plan is too little. Yes this does take time.
• Whether you win in your classroom is decided well before you enter the classroom.
• Do this at the unit level - a time investment.
• Crystalize your learning outcome in a GEM: goal, evidence, measure of success.
• You are envisioning a destination for them.
• Mapping the path to mastery.
• School in the Square
• How to be a transformative principal? Start from the beginning, what’s the GEM for your upcoming unit?

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Here's some excitement: Episode 300! I give updates on my professional life, the podcast, and more! Tune in!

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New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Dr. Grayson Maas is the Director of Communications for the Art of Problem Solving, a unique solution to teaching math anytime, anywhere.

• Talking about dissertation - how we create scientific knowledge as a society - who can become a scientist and who cannot.
• Scientific knowledge and how it gets created.
• It’s no secret that there’s underrepresentation in science.
• What is funneling certain groups towards science and what is not?
• Science for all
• Tests measure what we value.
• Tests can be an unreliable indicator.
• It’s a common experience that the scores you got on classes and tests to tell you if you’re smart.
• All those tests are telling you, “are you good at that instrument on that day?”
• Extremely difficult to identify high-ability kids from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Ability grouping is not a bad thing for the kids in the high group.
• Kids know who is in different groups.
• We need to reconfigure the labels we use.
• For us to lose sight of kids that don’t get extra opportunities is not working for those kids.
• It’s incumbent on us as a society to meet these kids where they’re at.
• Providing the “right” amount of challenge.
• We’re going to set the bar right above where you grasp it and help them reach the next level.
• You deserve to be challenged and we’re going to make sure you get that.
• Learning about the water cycle.
• Their version of learning about the water cycle was a youtube water cycle rap song.
• The kids in the low group developed low self-perception.
• Constantly reinforce these students and tell them they are capable and can accomplish the work before them.

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal