Have a Good Life

Matthew Moyer Website is an elementary school principal with over 17 years of experience in administration, and over 23 years of experience in education. In addition to his job as principal, he is a Nationally Distinguished Principal, Pennsylvania Principal of the Year, Author,  National Speaker, Adjunct Professor, and staff developer with Thom Stecher and Associates.

• The adventures of David and Donald: The Fractured flower pot
• Building relationships during the pandemic
• Relationships are at the cornerstone of what principals need to do.
• Posting daily on social media to connect with families.
• Popup principal.
• Postcards are a great way to connect.
• Impact program
• Assume goodwill.
• Finding good mentors, asking good questions.
• Ask all the questions you can.
• Top down and bottom up leadership. Including everyone in the conversation.
• Involve people in the process.
• You’ve got to talk tot he right people.
• You have to believe that the collaboration matters.
• You have to articulate your message in multiple ways and multiple means.
• Can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
• Take the time you need to make a decision.
• Kids always come first.
• Don’t double down on a bad idea!
• How to be a transformative principal? Get out of your office and be where the kids are.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Tracey Runeare taught high school social studies for 16 years before becoming a high school assistant principal. She has been the principal of Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California for 5 years.

• Harbor High School - Santa Cruz - Beachside community. Small high school with 1100 students.
• Role of an admin needs to be shifted. To hear what teachers are struggling with and where they need help.
• Relationships - getting people to understand the why
• Still go into classrooms, even when they are virtual.
• Student X - is the prototypical student. A little bit of every student.
• How do you design your school to meet their needs?
• Create the best experience for students, flexible as much as possible.
• Flexibility takes a lot of work.
• Every teacher having that flexibility.
• We try to pay teachers for what they are doing outside of the day.
• We try to see what we can do to help.
• We have a system for organized binder and making sure that things are taken care of for them.
• Consistency is doing what people need.
• How to be a transformative principal? Ask questions — if you think something is going on, ask some people before you assume there is a need you need to fulfill.
• Not solving problems empowers everyone in the school.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

At 22, Makaila Nichols is a model, speaker and best-selling author (at age 18) of “Blatantly Honest: Normal Teen, Abnormal Life.” In her book, she shares her personal struggles with issues such as: bullying, body image, sexual assault, peer pressure and more. Makaila was bullied unmercifully throughout her adolescence and even today as a recent college grad (University of Central Florida). Makaila found that through writing she was able to cope with the struggles she was enduring. 

• The difference between being bullied and just being mean
• series of repeated behaviors.
• Why writing was helpful.
• How to overcome the challenges
• Figuring out who you are is the most important part
• Moon mission
• Open up to your parents, because they love you.
• it’s scary to ask for help, but it is worth it.
• Moon Shots: Operation Inspiration
• Blatantly honest foundation.
• Buddies don’t bully and everyone is beautiful.
• How to persevere and have resilience?
• We’re not the result of what happens to us.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Maureen O’Shaughnessy, EdD, is a career school innovator with over 30 years of transforming learning in schools to better serve all students.
She is the founding director of Leadership Preparatory Academy, a nonprofit progressive micro-school in Washington State. With a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate degree in educational leadership, she has an extensive understanding of the components needed to transform the education system.
Her book, Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids: A Step-by-Step Process that Empowers Frustrated Parents to Innovate Education, includes a step-by-step process for how to start a micro-school of your own.
She also has a podcast called Education Revolution.

• Always worked to find new ways of supporting kids.
• Overseas work in Kuwait and Ecuador.
• A school that could meet each student where they are.
• Independent school with sliding scale tuition.
• Use alternative learning laws.
• If you know something, we move you on.
• Competency based.
• Geared towards students thriving.
• Don’t have incentives to change it.
• We have to have a reason to make changes.
• The system was more important than the human.
• We’re part of the inhumane system.
• We need to examine our hearts, and what am I going to do to buck the system?
• We need to gently examine ourselves.
• It’s hard and uncomfortable.
• Agency is everything for teachers and students.
• When we let people go with their passions, they work so much harder!
• Let go of control.
• Let the trailblazers lead the way.
• Sometimes kids learn so much more from seeing their teachers fail.

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• Microschool is just a small school. Could be like your school.
• The local school district
• Many choice schools within the district.
• There’s a need and a desire for specific schools.
• Many schools have a school within a school.
• We have this sense of entitlement that they have to get it all done in my class.
• Kids can do an 1/8 of a credit.
• If we can look at other ways for finding success.
• Start looking at the teachers and rethink how we get credit.
• Start with those that get it.
• How to protect teachers who are sticking their heads above the rest.
• Support those teachers and build support around them.
• When we highlight the problem, we offer a solution.
• Parents are a valued stakeholder.
• Have clearly delineated roles for who is doing what!
• Listen and think, how can we serve this population?
• Tap into that passion!
• How to be a transformative principal? Put reflection and personal growth in your calendar.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Trevor Goertzen
–15th year in education
Building Principal at Spring Hill Middle School, Spring Hill, Kansas
–5yrs
Teacher & Instructional Coach Blue Valley School, Overland Park, Kansas
–10yrs
National Board Certified Teacher

• Kansas Podcast - KPA Listen Up!
• Communication director of Kansas Principal Association.
• Teachers in emergency learning environment.
• Didn’t have a way to ensure learning was taking place.
• You asked, we answered session in the summer focusing on best practices for learning in a pandemic.
• August planning to support good remote learning.
• Extra 12 days of professional development. And COVID precautions.
• High Yielding Remote practices.
• Prioritizing content standards
• Integrating past content. Flashback flash forward.
• What we didn’t want to do is front load all the work for the kids. Just in time learning.
• Technology training and professional training
• It’s not the way people thought it was going to be done.
• Specific questions to help teachers articulate the challenges they were facing.
• What support can we provide?
• How to help teachers articulate their feelings.
• Gave questions a few days in advance to help them be prepared.
• Met with 20 teachers over the course of a week.
• Worried about specific kids.
• It’s really hard to support kids that are around. Kids aren’t retaining it as well as they could.
• Got leadership together and asked what makes sense going forward?
• Allowed them time to talk about kids.
• Go slow to go fast.
• Pivoted this week to prioritize what teachers were doing.
• Give them time to talk with each other.
• The things you would have done, you’re not even thinking about right now.
• I just miss kids talking.
• Prioritize their standards.
• Make it a culture week.
• Giving people time to be honest and talk.
• We’ve got to find a way to create opportunities for people to have fun with each other.
• How to be a transformative principal? Reach out to a colleague that you haven’t spoken to in a while and connect with them.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Tom Mahoney currently serves as the Superintendent of Oregon Community Unit School District located in Northern Illinois.  As an educator, Tom has served as a secondary math teacher, coach, building administrator, and Assistant Superintendent. His experiences as a teacher, serving a diverse student population, continue to guide his advocacy for equity and whole child education in his administrative roles.

•  Lead, Grow, Serve. “I take me with me wherever I go,” he says. “So if I’m not making me better, things aren’t going to get better.”
• Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
• Leadership is a great opportunity to help others.
• My job on earth is not to find happiness but to serve others and that leads to happiness.
• How do we define priorities for the crises we face.
• People are constantly reactive.
• Constantly in crisis.
• First take care of yourself, don’t worry about the “urgent”.
• Invite that person out of that place.
• Nobody is staying in crisis because they want to be there. They just don’t know how to get out of it.
• Acknowledging that if you don’t take care of yourself, nobody else will do it.
• Build relationships around shared beliefs.
• Are you open to…
• Invite, then be ready to solve the problem.
• Self-care
• The Helper - put the person who always says yes to be part of that.
• Disgruntled - things never go well.
• I was the only common denominator in every situation
• I take me with me wherever I go.
• People who feel guilty for saying no.
• Help them build boundaries.
• I thought interest in topics were innate. Didn’t know you could choose curiosity.
• Couldn’t read, couldn’t sit still.
• They invested in me, and held me accountable to a higher standard.
• I realized that learning was a choice.
• Things I was afraid of, I became excited about.
• It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
• Self-direction and whole child education.
• I don’t weight any four areas higher than others.
• What I found was that kids were graduating and they couldn’t survive.
• Educate students to be lifelong learners who are productive and responsible citizens.
• Nothing is more frightening to me than the child who is good at school.
• They can take control of their own learning.
• They have all the skill
• New staff members: Mission driven, Fail, be responsible for the culture you create.
• Created opportunity for teachers to the
• how to be a transformative principal? Future self, tomorrow I will… Do something intentionally daily or weekly to make myself as good as I can be.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder and head of Michaela Community School. She and her staff wrote the book, “Michaela: the Power of Culture” which you can find anywhere books are sold.

• Michaela is a different kind of school.
• High standards of discipline - silent corridors
• Knowledge is our goal in the classroom
• Why don’t people do things to get the results - People are critical of just focusing on the test.
• Public appreciation during family lunches.
• What tests should be like.
• Cutting the crap - kids usually learn in pretty much the same way.
• We’ve assumed that the differences of the subject also apply to the differences of the students.
• Personalized learning is where we disagree.
• Teachers don’t spend all their time chasing naughty behavior.
• Teachers aren’t inventing what they teach, they’re sharing and pulling them.
• How to plan ahead, making sure people have time to do that.
• No support staff, so there are fewer staff
• Turn down teachers for doing things for five kids.
• Personalized learning -
• The power of saying no.
• Most staff want to be heard
• I seek out the ideas of staff all the time.
• I depend on you to tell me when they
• Bribing people to tell me what is wrong.
• You’ve got to inspire people and win hearts and minds.
• Sorting out behavior - start with the small things. You need consistency throughout your schools.
• You’re pretending that kids are learning when they’re not in a progressive classroom.
• Small c conservative vs. progressive approaches.
• Personal responsibility, duty to community, Dressing well, having a sense of decency about yourself.
• Having pride in yourself for the right reasons.
• Far too much negativity.
• Gratitude.
• They see themselves as victims.
• Free schools started only in 2010.
• I remember what I’m in it for.
• How to be a transformative principal? You’ve got to have courage. You have to not mind being disliked. You must never think I want people to be happy.
• Do the right thing.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Transformative Principal 366

Social Media: He threw a rock at the building and I thought we were done! Via Kevin Stinehart

Kevin Stinehart is in his ninth year teaching in a South Carolina Title 1 Arts Magnet School. Last month he won Teacher of the Year for his district, and he is currently in the running for South Carolina State Teacher of the year. His school made headlines 2 years ago when it became the first school in South Carolina to create an after-school Play Club under his leadership. Kevin is passionate about treating students as holistic people and recognizing the social and emotional needs of students as paramount to their success inside and outside of the classroom.

• Why is play so important? 
• In order for Social0emotional learning to be effective, it must be done in the moment.
• Play club doesn’t cut into classroom - free daycare.
• I’m not here
• Parents agree to some expectations.
• Turning things over to kids if they have problems.
• Kids solve their own problems.
• He threw a rock at the building and I thought we were done!
• After play club, he never got a referral again.
• School district really supports free play.
• 45 minutes of work 15 of play all day long.
• District leadership team meetings even have this model.
• Our brain needs a break.
• How are you finding opportunities for kids to play with coronavirus? 
• I heard you increased recess time at your school. Tell me how that happened.
• Wellness is baked into their standards.
• Play club before and after school
• Parent perception.
• Start small, it takes no money and no preparation.
• How to be a transformative principal? She takes a “let’s try it” approach.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

For 30 years, Frank Forte has led projects and programs around the world for clients such as the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army, NASA, CA, CSC, GTE, and Mylan Pharmaceutical. He has worked across many different industries, including Oil & Gas, Software, Healthcare, and Construction.
Frank is the author of the book A.G.I.L.E. Thinking Demystified.

• What is AGILE thinking?Adaptability,
  Growth
  Improvement
  Leadership
  Experience

• The AGILE method is empiricism.

• We don’t know what we have to do to please our stakeholders

• We as humans don’t like to fail. Our education system rewards getting the right answer and doesn’t support failure.

• Why do you need to teach adults that?

• Effort and process.

• What did you learn in this experiment?

• Agile mentality have anything to offer me as a School principal?

• It was about the process that I needed to follow.

• We don’t have processes when it comes to idiosyncratic people. Is it complicated or complex? We do inspection and we have quality control

• Humans as creators of engineering

• What is the next experiment that I can use to help you grow?

• When change approaches are successful and when they are failures.

• CARES Act dealing with loans and withdrawals. Couldn’t have done it if not for the agile training they had gone through.

• What about those made it so they could change so quickly. John Cotter - the Heart of Change

• Sense of urgency has to the first thing

• They will either vote with their feet or demand change.

• Failures - trying once and then being surprised and giving up.

• We are working in a complex ever-changing environment.

• Build the change model

• Retrospectives - How formal should these things be?

• Don’t overwhelm the system.

• What questions could I have asked to make it better?

• Get comfortable with feedback, and accelerate that feedback.

• We’ve got to carve out time to change.

• Get effective first, then become efficient.

• Growth vs. fixed mindset - fixed mindset is focused on being efficient.

• Asking them what they have changed in their approach.

• Change starts with awareness.

• It’s time to make the donuts

• Fight Flight and Freeze

• If you do want to change, be prepared to get some push back.

• How to be a transformative principal? Figure out what is on your backlog that needs to change. Make it so small that nobody will notice except you. Ask your class how they’re doing.

• Listen and show empathy

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Wanting to Get Better with Dr. Vernita Glenn-White Transformative Principal 364

Social Media: You need to have a goal. Via @DrVglenn_white

Dr. V. is a professor of empowerment and executive coaching and consulting.

• It’s ok to admit that you will make some mistakes.
• How to not judge people?
• There’s always things that are subconscious
• I probably had this reaction because I listen to the news too much.
• You have to want to get better.
• You have to put yourself in environments where you are interacting with different people.
• We don’t pause enough when we are interacting.
• Setting norms of ground rules. Valencia College’s 13 rules of how we treat each other.
• Show how much we are alike than different.
• Don’t give up.
• People give up because it is hard.
• You need to have a goal.
• How to be a transformative Principal? 1. Think about your vision for your life and how that relates to the vision for your school or district.
• 1. Sit down and think about your core values.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Janneke Ritchie is an entrepreneur, speaker, designer and digital transformation expert. A robot momma, she brings both passion and a healthy dose of realism to how robots, AI and future technologies can be used to transform how we work, live and age. 
After 20 years of envisioning, designing and implementing solutions to enhance adoption of new technologies in large organizations, Janneke designs simple, elegant solutions to support people adopting modern technologies to go digital. 

An international speaker, Janneke inspires audiences to envision the opportunities and prepare for the challenges of the era of AI. She has a specific interest in how modern technologies can enhance the experience of aging.

Janneke is the host of bricksTObytes, a podcast featuring real stories of real people daring to adopt modern tech to transform and go digital.
 * Digital learning for non-digital natives
* The challenges of how to design learning experiences using these digital technologies.
* First Five Minutes Game Jane McGonnigal
* non-linear learning
* Digital natives vs digital immigrant
* Losing it includes not knowing how to find it!
* Because of the explosion of information, there’s not an expectation they know everything.
* I took a course on coding because I wanted to know how coders work.
* After that, they work with repositories.
* How to be a learner in a digital age.
* What are the skills you must learn.
* nothing is solid in a digital world.
* How the salient nugget retrieval happens
* Things that would do well to persist.
* There is no course that could have taught me.
* There’s a hyper personalization that occurs.
* SFD - Crappy first draft.
* How to be a transformative principal? Do something new and find a way to share how you’ve done it with your colleagues and maybe even with your students.

Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Kat Howard is AP at the Duston School and founder of LitDrive, PD for English Teachers. She is also the author of the book “Stop Talking About Wellbeing”

• Came to teaching quite late after working in finance
• Felt lack of reward outside of education.
• How to help teachers take care of themselves.
• Approaching workload - we have a responsibility to ourselves
• Building strong relationships.
• Effective conversation and effective exchange.
• We’ve done several things to support conversation
• It’s not just the resolution of the problem.
• In schools, I don’t think email is a productive tool.
• That’s the double edged sword of our profession.
• Wellbeing is the outcome rather than the process
• Our sense of purpose is really important.
• Teachers don’t want to create their own behavior process in the classroom.
• Give teachers autonomy over things that are important.
• Curriculum design & teaching.
• Teacher guilt - but it’s for the kids!
• Teachers don’t come in to education to be mediocre.
• People tell you what you want to hear.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Lizzy Neiger is an elementary principal at an international school in Nepal. Previously, Lizzy was a special ed teacher and 2nd grade teacher.

• Geographically positioned between China and India.
• Only flights people could get were repatriation flights back to their home countries.
• Thought people would be able to return.
• Making my self available at the end of my days.
• How to support a school that is tuition based during this time.
• How this will change their approach their approach to learning.
• Reaching out via Twitter and PLN.
• The Modern classroom project.
• Creating family rituals.
• Both asynchronous and synchronous meetings.
• Meeting 4 times per week to focus on social emotional needs.
• Lessons asynchronous.
• Consume, process, assess.
• Crisis teaching mode.
• Monday-Thursday teaching schedule. Friday is screen free challenges.
• Trying to take the modern classrooms project in tiny bites.
• Plans for the future.
• How to be a transformative principal? You can’t take care of other people if you can’t take care of yourself. Know yourself and know what you need.

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Hannah Costello graduated in January 2020 after homeschooling her whole life. While co-founding the Learner Council and volunteering at virtual camps in her distributed learning high school, she discovered a passion for guiding and supporting other learners, and for creating systems that work. She wants to help other kids to experience learning the way she did by designing and supporting individualized learning paths.

• What is a distributed learning high school?
• Enrolled in a program where you had lots of power over your learning.
• Created our own curriculum through grade 9.
• Still a diploma granting program, but in Grade 10 switched to a thematic learning system.
• There weren’t courses, but projects and ideas that were combined in a theme.
• Having the opportunity to see connections between things is really important.
• Find something you are interested in and delve into it.
• Learner council was like a student council, and we didn’t have one.
• Many students saw struggles with all the changes.
• One student got fed up with all the changes and decided we needed a student council.
• The model was based on the idea that every student should be heard.
• Our school was so happy to have learner initiative.
• Challenges were creating space for kids to talk with us.
• We did all of our communication online.
• Each learner has a learner consultant that they talk with at least weekly.
• The school organized events (like camps) that were in person.
• Befriended the communications team within the school.
• Forum space set up to meet with
• Tools to be successful
• Reach out and ask for what I needed.
• There was lots of support, but kids weren’t making use of their educators.
• Found it useful to find out who was doing what.
• I feel bad for my educators, because I asked a lot of them.
• What to do now?
• I could not join the educator team because I don’t have a college degree.
• There are definitely uses for college.
• I don’t want to teach a class, I want to facilitate learning.
• Different ideas to help people.
• How to be a transformative principal? Offer kids options as to how to express their learning. Because not everyone is going to learn the same way and not everyone is going to want to do it the same way.

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Andrea Keith is the Vice President of School Programs at Let Grow.

• Let Grow non profit to bring back childhood independence.
• What changes have happened in the how parenting happens?
• Belief that it is the parents’ job to protect kids from any discomfort.
• Blue hands in the windows.
• Benefits of kids having independence.
• Nobody intends to give their kids the message that they’re not capable.
• How has the pandemic influenced independence?
• Re-education of adults.
• I wasn’t taught social-emotional learning when I was a child.
• Give your kids independence.
• Let Grow Project
• Let Grow Play Club
• How to be a transformative principal? Start the project once a week after school with your kids.

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Barb Labotka is a principal of a Montessori School in Chicago, Illinois. And this podcast is a little different in that she is going to tell some stories about Maria Montessori!

• integrated her faith into her theory.
• Montessori was the first scientific method.
• Inspiration will come in moments when you least expect them.
• At 36, she said that her educational approach will fill the whole world.
• Match activities to abilities
• Kids enjoy the things we typically think they hate in education.
• Brains are designed to keep our bodies alive.
• If kids are not given freedom, it is harder for them to learn.

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Nancy Conrad is the founder of the Conrad Challenge, a global competition to help kids learn without limitations.

• Global competition for teams of students 13–18.
• Students are invited to combine innovation, education, and entrepreneurship to create something new.
• Students form teams and ind a coach.
• Summit hosted at Kennedy Space Center.
• As students are looking for unique opportunities for competition - kids can work across all possible barriers.
• We’ve been doing online education for 15 years.
• How to work on a team?
• Pushing education vs pulling education
• We believe in “pull” education
• Obstatunity
• They get engaged in their learning.
• Each of them has achieved extraordinary things.
• We gave kids the passion for learning.
• four years to get to the finals and they finally won.
• Always wanted it to be a community.
• It becomes family.
• Kids get talked at quite enough.
• Cosmic chat.
• Battelle - story about networking.
• It’s not snooty and it’s not about money.
• We facilitate collaboration.
• Any company is a conglomeration of really great people doing really great work.
• Hire amazing people and let them do their thing.
• Nobox toolbox.

Today’s Sponsors

TeachFX

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

John Catt

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal

Amy Valentine, Leader at Future of School has been called a social rabble rouser, a turnaround strategist and a fighter of the status quo in K–12 education. She has served as a teacher, school leader and executive director. 

• Gives scholarships to students and grants to teachers.
• National Non-profit to support the changing of schools.
• Why parents seek alternative methods of education.
• Why wasn’t emergency learning effective in spring 2020?
• We haven’t reached a tipping point.
• COVID 19 taught us that school is verb.
• How to demonstrate learning differently?
• It doesn’t take a lot of money.
• Fixed mindsets can be damaging.
• Education is a personal thing for everyone.
• Whatever it takes, all hands on deck.
• Seeing education from a different perspective.
• Role of teacher was elevated during pandemic.
• buzzword - student-centered learning.
• Crisis schooling - is not remote learning.
• You need to listen to that voice inside you.
• You’ve got all this education figured out.
• How to be a transformative principal? Bring your community together through 1 or 2 different mediums. Stay connected even if you don’t know your plan.
• Some data:
• American public perception of the K–12 education system has been remained steadily low over the last 20 years
• According to the most recent Gallup Poll, 47% of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the K–12 education system (2019)
• According to the 2018 Gallup Poll, 71% of parents expressed satisfaction with the K–12 education system (2018)
• Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Education at 15-Year High
• [Gallup Satisfaction Surveys on Education]
(https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx)
• Seven in 10 Parents Satisfied With Their Child’s Education
• Why the discrepancy?  
• Not all “Americans” are parents; some are older and do not resonate with that title, others do not have children but own businesses; everyone pays taxes that go to schools;
• Not all “Americans” are parents; some are older and do not resonate with that title, others do not have children but own businesses; everyone pays taxes that go to fund and support schools
• Education is a third-rail political issue– nobody wants to touch it– highly charged
* Why have things stayed the same in our K–12 schools? the rate and pace of change in public schools not mirroring that of all other social institutions, policy constraints (which differ by state), limited school choice options (which differ by state), budget cuts (federal, state and local), a changing workforce, and nearly no alignment between the needs of businesses and what is being taught as part of required content/curriculum, lack of empowerment at the local level, fear of technology catalyzing the much needed change
• Not all “Americans” are parents; some are older and do not resonate with the role, others do not have children, others are business owners; BUT everyone pays taxes that go to fund schools
• A four-year degree is not the golden ticket that majestically ensures skills development to enter into the workforce
• Why is this? If Americans are generally dissatisfied, why have schools remained the same, in large part? Reasons for parental dissatisfaction with district/school/the K–12 education system? Parent has a child who struggles in the school (academically, socially, personally, emotionally, other…), life-changing event (family moves, job change, terminal illness, medical condition, etc…) or another personal crisis (denoted as a small “c” or big/small “t” in their life)
• Of the 3.3 million families who chose to homeschool their child(ren) in 2016, the top reason (34%) indicated by families “concern about the school environment” such as bullying, drugs, negative peer pressure; second on the list of reasons dissatisfaction with academic instruction, with only 16% of families indicating the reason was for religious reasons.
• According to NCES, In 1999, 38% of families indicated religious reasons as the primary driver in choosing homeschooling 
* Since 1999, the number of homeschool families in America has nearly doubled (1999- 1.7 million; 2016- 3.3 million; NC)
• A Fresh Look at Homeschooling in the U.S.
• Parents’ Reasons for Homeschooling

Today’s Sponsors

Innovative school leaders across the country have started tracking online student participation using TeachFX because it’s one of the most powerful ways to improve student outcomes during COVID — especially for English Learners and students of color. Learn more about TeachFX and get a special offer at TeachFX.com

Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms.

John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

New Episode of @TrnFrmPrincipal